A Real-Time Operating System (RTOS) is used for mission critical projects that require a deterministic response time for external stimuli. Many times project managers request an RTOS even though they don’t fully understand what exactly an RTOS gives them. And many...
The PREEMPT_RT patch turns Linux into a hard Real-Time designed operating system. But it takes more than just a kernel to make sure you can meet all your requirements. This talk explains all aspects of the system that is being used for a mission critical project that...
At the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, Geneva, Switzerland, the radiofrequency and transverse damper feedback systems digitize beam phase and position measurements for beam studies. The “observation box” (ObsBox) diagnostic system parasitically captures data...
