EPICS Collaboration Meeting 2006
SIG: Special Interest Group Workshops
RTEMS Primer and Workshop (2006, June, 12)

• Organizer: Eric Norum, Argonne National Lab

Eric Norum, Argonne National Lab:
"RTEMS Overview"

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• RTEMS, Real-Time Executive for Multiprocessor Systems
  • http://www.rtems.com
  • Wikipedia: de, en
  • distributed under a modified GPL licence
  • port based on FreeBSD
• Portability ⇒ Major design goal of RTEMS
  • FPGA: Runs on Open Cores OR 32
• Development Environment
  • Based on GNU Tools
    • GNU Compiler Collection
    • GNU Debugger
• OAR: Online Application Research is currently managing the RTEMS project, is an active member of the free software effort
• RTEMS vs. VxWorks
  • vxWorks: Wikipedia: de, en

Dayle Kotturi, SLAC, LCLS Controls Group,
"Getting an IOC to boot RTEMS"

• live presentation

S. Kate Feng, BNL (Brookhaven National Lab), NSLS:
"Writing a RTEMS Board Support Package (BSP) for MVME5500"

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• major skills:
  • read documentation and source code
• MVME5500 ( Motorola MVME5500 Series: MPC7455 PowerPC processor Single-Board Computer)

S. Kate Feng, BNL (Brookhaven National Lab), NSLS:
"Device Driver / Applications ?"

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• Image Processing
  • for Firewire Cams
• SAN- Fibre Channel Switch
  • 200 MB/s per Lane
• My Notes/Questions:
  • (Industrial) Standards ?

Eric Norum, Argonne National Lab:
"Coldfire Debugging"

• Coldfire: 68x RISC embedded System (Wikipedia: de, en)
• embedded IOC (Input Output Controler
• remotely debugged
• debugging with gdb (Wikipedia: de, en)
  • remote gdb protocol