Talk abstract: Development of embedded systems is moving away from single-task / single-user applications running on specialized target platforms, towards a reduced general purpose OS running on PC-like hardware. This move is well represented by Linux based projects for embedded platforms and specialized minimum distributions. miniRTL was designed as a sample system, and as a basis for development of hard real-time embedded systems. This presentation described and explained miniRTL, which provides hard real-time capabilities, up-to-date Linux kernels, capability to use “standard” desktop PCs as development systems, and can load from a 1.44MB disk image.

Speaker bio: Nicholas McGuire's first contact with Linux dates back to Linux kernel version 0.99.112, at a time when many rumors and myths were circulating about the fledgling open source operating system. McGuire first came into contact with RTLinux at RTL version 0.5, in the course of developing a DSP system replacement for magnetic bearing control, at the Institute for Material Science of the University of Vienna, Austria. McGuire began developing MiniRTL while RTLinux was at version 1.1, and has been engaged in RTLinux and MiniRTL based development work ever since.

Talk slides: here

 
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