One of the most demanding applications of real-time control is the active magnetic bearing (AMB). Suspending a shaft rotating faster than 10,000 RPMs in a magnetic field with a gap of .015 ...

“The majority of FSMLabs customers seem to be in aerospace and defense, which is a new market for us,” said Glenn Seiler, Director, Linux Platforms for Wind River. None of Wind River’s current Linux ...

If you follow the open-source software culture at all, you're aware of the us vs. them mentality that has developed. In the Slashdot view of the world, there are those who "get it" and those who don't ...

Purchase of RTLinux technology--used for devices like animatronic robots--opens new markets for Wind River's embedded Linux efforts. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about ...

In the first two articles of this series [see ``Real Time and Linux'' in the January/February 2002 issue and ``Real Time and Linux, Part 2: the Preemptible Kernel'' in the March/April 2002 issue of ...

RTLinuxFree is a free, open-source implementation of FSM Labs' real-time RTLinuxPro, which now supports the Linux 2.6 kernel. RTLinux is a split operating system with a real-time and a conventional ...

The Free Software Foundation has condemned FSMLabs, which developed the embedded operating system RTLinux, for using software patents that it says violate a central pillar of the Linux world -- the ...

FSMLabs, a software developer announced that Samsung Heavy Industries Shipbuilding Division (SHI) has selected RTLinuxPro as the base for its robotics systems and has several advanced RTLinux powered ...

Hard real-time Linux has been around for ages, or it may never appear. It all depends on who you talk to. It also depends on your requirements. A two-second interrupt latency may be acceptable for ...

FSMLabs, a software developer announced that Samsung Heavy Industries Shipbuilding Division (SHI) has selected RTLinuxPro as the base for its robotics systems and has several advanced RTLinux powered ...