(Socorro, NM) RTLinux/Pro 1.1 Development kit released for Force Computers PowerPC based boards

(Socorro NM) FSMLabs Inc. announces the immediate availability of the RTLinux/Pro 1.1 Development Kit for Force Computers PowerPC based boards. The RTLinux/Pro Development Kit includes cross-compilation tools, a target filesystem, tested and stable Linux as well as RTLinux/Pro powered by the industry leading hard real-time RTCore[tm] system.

RTCore provides a POSIX API for components needing precise timing and runs Linux or BSD as the fully preemptible "application platform" thread. Applications are split between the real-time components that run directly under the RTCore OS and other components that run in the unmodified Linux environment. Linux provides a small footprint high performance and highly portable OS platform for the non-real-time components of real-time applications. Combined with the lower power
consumption, high processing capacity and low interrupt latency of the PowerPC, the Force boards and RTLinux/Pro offer developers a fast path to shipping products.

FSMLabs Product Manager Matt Sherer said: "RTCore on the Force boards has been in our testing program for nearly a month now and has demonstrated some amazing determinism and stability". Sherer notes that the 400MHz PowerPC board has shown a worst-case periodic scheduling jitter of less than 32 micro-seconds under extremely heavy load.

About RTCore and RTLinux/Pro
RTCore is the kernel of RTLinux/Pro and RTCore/BSD: the ruggedized commercial license version of FSMLabs RTLinux hard-realtime operating system. RTCore supports the IA32 (Intel, AMD) architectures, most PowerPC variants, MIPS, ARM, and Alpha including multiprocessor PowerPC and IA32. The RTCore technology can bring hard real-time to memory limited low-power embedded boards and to multiprocessor VME racks. The unique "decoupled" programming method brings the UNIX component model and standard POSIX APIs to real-time systems, and the patented technology brings unprecedented performance to off-the-shelf hardware.

About FSMLabs Inc.
Finite State Machine Labs (FSMLabs) Inc. is a privately held core software technology company with headquarters in New Mexico and offices in Korea, Japan, and Austria. FSMLabs Inc. created and develops the RTLinux and RTCore hard real-time operating system and other software control system building blocks. FSMLabs develops software under both standard commercial and open
source licenses. FSMLabs technology partners and OEMs include Red Hat Software, LynuxWorks and RedSonic.