LinuxDevices.com is pleased to publish the proceedings from the Seventh Real-Time Linux Workshop held in Lille, France, November 3-4, 2005, at the University for Science and Technology of Lille (USTL). The papers span a broad range of topics, ranging from fundamental real-time technologies to applications, hardware, and tools.

As usual, the conference was organized by the Real-Time Linux Foundation. The links below will lead you to a summary of each talk, and to a link for downloading the associated paper (PDF file). Enjoy . . . !

Real-Time Linux Applications

• Real-Time Reactive Control Layer Design for Intelligent Silver-Mate Robot on RTAI — by Hyung Sun Lee, Sang Woo Choi, and Byung Kook Kim
• Development of robot controllers based on PC hardware and open source software — by Dario Dallefrate, D. Colombo and L. Molinari Tosatti
• Experiences with StrongARM/Linux/RTAI combination in Mission-Critical Systems — by Iztok Kobal and Davor Munda

Real-Time Linux Infrastructure and Tools

• An Efficient Snapshot Technique for Ext3 File System in Linux 2.6 — by Seungjun Shim, Woojoong Lee and Chanik Park
• Introducing the C-API Simulink Target for RT-Linux — by Arthur Siro and Inaki Diaz
• An UML based design tool for Fault-Tolerant Real-Time Linux — by Agnes Lanusse, Patrick Vanuxeem, Yann Tanguy And Sebastien Gerard
• MDP Balloon Board: An open source software & hardware system for education — by Peter Long

Real-Time Linux Drivers And Networks

• The Real-Time Driver Model and First Applications — by Jan Kiszka
• Hard Real-Time Networking on FireWire — by Yuchen Zhang, Bojan Orlic, Peter Visser and Jan Broenink
• A sensor platform based on PowerPC — by Cheng Guanghui, Zhou Qingguo, Li Chanjuan, Zhou Rui, Zhao Junjie

Real-Time Linux

• Soft Real-Time Linux Overview — by Georg Schiesser and Nicholas McGuire
• The Evolution of Real-Time Linux — by Sven-Thorsten Dietrich and Daniel Walker
• On Integrating POSIX Signals into a Real-Time Operating System — by Arnoldo Diaz, Ismael Ripoll and Alfons Crespo
• Implementation of Real-Time Virtual CPU Partition on Linux — by Aloysius K. Mok, Xiang Feng and Zhengting He
• Unintrusively Measuring Linux Kernel Execution Times — by Sven Schneider and Robert Baumgartl
• Benchmarking – Cache issues — by Nicholas Mc Guire and Qingguo Zhou

 
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