FSMLabs has revised its hard real-time Linux and BSD operating systems. RTLinuxPro 2.1 and RTCoreBSD 2.1 feature improved multi-OS partitioning, expanded CPU architecture and board support, and tighter integration with included development tools, the company says.

Real-time operating systems from FSMLabs use a patented technique in which Linux (or BSD) runs as the idle task of a small real-time kernel called RTCore. The company says its dual-kernel approach offers hard real-time responsiveness in a standards-based computing environment.

The previous 2.0 release of RTCore in September of 2003 brought major ease of use improvements, while an IDE based on SlickEdit added further usability gains in March, 2004.

FSMLabs says the 2.1 release adds capabilities and features to address requirements for customers in communciations, control, instrumentation, aerospace, and defense applications, including:

• New levels of application reliability, error detection, and debugging support through improved name space partitioning from companion OS (Linux or BSD)
• Enhanced hard-real-time VME support for industrial and aerospace and defense applications
• Expanded support for new CPU architectures from Atmel, Intel, and TI and boards from Arcom, Diamond Systems, Dynatem, and Synergy Microsystems
• Broadened POSIX APIs for greater code portability and standards-based inter-process, inter-thread, and device communication
• Upgrades to ruggedized versions of client OS Linux 2.4.25 and NetBSD 1.6 and to the RTLinux Development Kit and target software components
• Tighter integration with included Visual SlickEdit IDE
• Incremental enhancements to real-time performance and included regression test system

 
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