This paper describes a set of open source, integrated tools for developing embedded real-time applications, especially targeted to the automotive industry. The set of tools comprises a schedulability analyzer, a kernel library and a kernel configurator. The goal is to achieve portability of the application over different hardware platforms without sacrificing performance. With our tools, the programmer only need to write the application tasks using standard kernel primitives; then the optimization phase is carried out with the help of the kConfigurator tool, which automatically configures the kernel library to obtain maximum performance. So far, the tools have been provided for ST10/C166 microprocessor based boards, we are currently working on a version for ARM 7TDMI based boards.

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