Real-Time Operating Systems and Standards

Abstract

This chapter presents a brief overview of the state of art of real-time systems and standards. It first discusses the most common operating systems standard interfaces that play a major role for developing portable real-time applications. Then, it gives a brief description of the most used commercial and open source real-time kernels available today, including some research kernels developed within academia to make experiments with some novel features and lead future development. Finally, it presents a set of development tools that can be used to speed up system analysis and implementation.