Wind River and FSMLabs will jointly deliver a free seminar on embedded Linux development on Oct. 18, in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The seminar will introduce hard real-time development on Linux using FSMLabs's RTLinux product. It will also include a presentation on Wind River's Eclipse-based WorkBench developer tools.

FSMLabs currently offers its RTLinux customers a graphical development environment based on SlickEdit. However, the company demonstrated Eclipse-based tools at last month's Embedded Systems Conference in Boston, saying it was beta-testing an Eclipse-based toolsuite of its own.

Wind River claims its WorkBench IDE is better than many other Eclipse-based toolsuites from competing embedded Linux vendors, in part because it offers closely integrated real-time debugging tools. Wind River purchased the ScopeTools line of real-time debugging tools from RTI in January.

Wind River joined the Eclipse Foundation in 2003, and proposed a top-level Eclipse project this March aimed at improving the Eclipse environment for use by embedded developers, a project that officially launched in May.

Enea and TimeSys have also been recognized recently as providers of high-quality Eclipse-based environments.

FSMLabs says its joint seminar with Wind River is appropriate for:

• Project managers looking to integrate Linux into real-time systems
• Developers interested in seeing where RTCore is already in use at the National Lab
• Linux software engineers that needing hard real-time response for device applications
• Hardware and firmware engineers wishing to integrate with a general purpose OS like Linux
• Anyone interested in learning about Linux development tools

The seminar will be held at the Wyndham Albuquerque Airport hotel. Additional details can be found here.

While a joint seminar means little, market pressures could favor deeper collaboration between FSMLabs and Wind River in the future, given that Wind River may be in the market for a plausible real-time story to counter recent real-time moves by arch-rival MontaVista. Additionally, FSMLabs recently launched its first Carrier Grade Linux distribution, a software area strongly pursued by Wind River.

 
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