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11 years ago

Bare-Metal vs RTOS for advanced control systems - Cyclone V SX

Dear community, I’m fairly new to the SoC-World and I have a few things I would like to discuss with you guys. I have to design a board with the new Cyclone V SXF SoC system for my company. ...
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11 years ago

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It depends on the how 'hard' the real-time requirements are.

If you have very strict real-time requirements you can't afford the randomness that an RTOS will generate.

IMHO I'd avoid vxworks ...

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If you're finding that whatever RTOS you are using is not meeting your "strict real-time requirements", then you are using the wrong RTOS. A RTOS should not be introducing "randomness", it should be introducing order and predictability. mAbassi from Code Time is another one to consider, and was designed specifically for multicore applications.