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by picadilly
Sun May 03, 2015 12:47 am
Forum: Automation, sensing and robotics
Topic: LinuxCNC
Replies: 1021
Views: 357088

Re: LinuxCNC

... parallel port as GPIO is always troublesome (it was never designed for that purpose) 3) running true real time applications on ANY OS (including RTOS) is located somewhere between really difficult and impossible. 4) it would require me to have a full PC with keyboard and monitor etc. in the garage ...
by 6by9
Thu Apr 02, 2015 7:18 pm
Forum: Camera board
Topic: motion kills the camera - needs power cycle
Replies: 14
Views: 3054

Re: motion kills the camera - needs power cycle

... as the framework next calls into it) - manage to leave a hardware block as "in use", and future uses of that block will fail. VC is running an RTOS, and it doesn't support killing processes. There was ongoing work for the next chip with rebooting VC whilst the ARM remained up with all VC services ...
by jdb
Thu Mar 26, 2015 7:41 pm
Forum: Bare metal, Assembly language
Topic: BCM 2836 and the RPi 2 ?
Replies: 95
Views: 33145

Re: BCM 2836 and the RPi 2 ?

Anyone wanting to poke at a bare-metal SMP (or SMP-aware RTOS) take a look here:

http://www.raspberrypi.org/documentatio ... /README.md
by ame
Mon Mar 23, 2015 2:41 am
Forum: Off topic discussion
Topic: Future 3D Printed RPi board?
Replies: 104
Views: 11698

Re: Future 3D Printed RPi board?

... a problem we are forced to live with (especially for projects that must have the software run on bare metal do to timing constraints beyond even a RTOS, or needing a true 100% of the processing power with no ISR's or anything else in the way). Such projects pop up from time to time, requiring a ...
by DavidS
Mon Mar 23, 2015 1:52 am
Forum: Off topic discussion
Topic: Future 3D Printed RPi board?
Replies: 104
Views: 11698

Re: Future 3D Printed RPi board?

... a problem we are forced to live with (especially for projects that must have the software run on bare metal do to timing constraints beyond even a RTOS, or needing a true 100% of the processing power with no ISR's or anything else in the way). Such projects pop up from time to time, requiring a ...
by marked
Sun Mar 22, 2015 9:59 am
Forum: General discussion
Topic: RPI on Flight Condition
Replies: 4
Views: 818

Re: RPI on Flight Condition

... can be processed in a fixed or determinate amount of time guaranteed by the operating system. This means for example that if you used an RTOS (realtime operating system) that if you moved an object, its position can be tracked, evaluated, predicted and movement commands issued all within ...
by jamesh
Tue Mar 17, 2015 8:05 pm
Forum: General discussion
Topic: Video Core Source – 1 Year On
Replies: 47
Views: 18744

Re: Video Core Source – 1 Year On

Just FYI, there is a dual scaler/vector core on the Pi2 VC4, plus 12 Quad processors. The Vector/Scaler cores run ThreadX as the RTOS, and control all the HW blocks in the cores. The cores can move between scaler and vectors operations at any time. Usually the cores are programmed in C ...
by mimi123
Tue Mar 17, 2015 5:03 pm
Forum: General discussion
Topic: Video Core Source – 1 Year On
Replies: 47
Views: 18744

Re: Video Core Source – 1 Year On

... supposedly has? Not supposedly but I'm using it right now. IT IS NOT A DSP BUT A FULL CPU WITH DSP EXTENSIONS, DUAL CORE WITH SMP RUNNING A FULL RTOS.
by GAGAN
Sat Feb 28, 2015 7:49 am
Forum: General discussion
Topic: STICKY: Introduce yourself!
Replies: 3775
Views: 244287

Re: Introduce yourself!

... yrs in ERP software development with C,C++ as core language and currently working on defense systems in projects including cluster computing and RTOS. I am single yet and marriage process is on the way...hopefully will get hookup with someone soon :) . Anyways I started using Raspberry Pi from ...
by Wire
Fri Feb 20, 2015 10:39 pm
Forum: Automation, sensing and robotics
Topic: LinuxCNC
Replies: 1021
Views: 357088

Re: LinuxCNC

At one point it was stated that the RPI RTOS was not stable enough to do direct stepper driving. Has that been resolved now? Right now the PICnc is capped at 40kHz so a direct GPIO solution running at 1MHz (or anything over 100kHz) would be a ...
by mimi123
Mon Feb 16, 2015 2:02 pm
Forum: RISCOS
Topic: Using another core on Pi 2B
Replies: 9
Views: 5835

Re: Using another core on Pi 2B

... (in some cases with the addition of a few resisters, in others just a connector) Without using any other IC's. There is the VPU which has a full RTOS with SMP<ThreadX> :roll: I see that as more adapted with a AMP-capable RiscOS(which runs a RISC OS instance per app and then compose them)
by charleslinquist
Mon Feb 09, 2015 3:22 pm
Forum: Camera board
Topic: Video -> 4G
Replies: 19
Views: 7284

Re: Video -> 4G

... in an aircraft (like a multirotor) the power demands are usually 128 Watts and up, so 5 Watts would hardly be noticed. Since Raspbian isn't a RTOS, I worry that Linux would get in the way - a one second "hang" could be fatal, so I thought that the faster RPi2 would have less tendency to get ...
by Jim Manley
Mon Feb 09, 2015 1:46 am
Forum: Other
Topic: Report Ubuntu Alpha
Replies: 6
Views: 1881

Re: Report Ubuntu Alpha

... versions of things running on the Pi, but they've been one-offs without much in the way of support and tools to make full use of without being an RTOS expert. The other thing that USC is designed for is scalability from stand-alone embedded to cloud-distributed levels of operation. That's a pretty ...
by ankura66
Sun Feb 08, 2015 6:26 am
Forum: Advanced users
Topic: Use of Raspberry Pi in commercial products
Replies: 3
Views: 1784

Use of Raspberry Pi in commercial products

... and I/O interface through external boards. Are there any restrictions in connecting things to Raspberry Pi Boards 2.Is there any open source RTOS available for use on Raspberry Pi? 3.Are the Linux distributions currently available on Raspberry Pi stable enough to be sued in a commercial product? ...
by Miknantes
Thu Feb 05, 2015 11:49 am
Forum: General discussion
Topic: Xvisor ARM hypervisor ported to Raspberry Pi
Replies: 20
Views: 33136

Re: Xvisor ARM hypervisor ported to Raspberry Pi

Hi, 2. embedded virtualization (i.e. proprietary RTOS as one guest and managment OS Linux as another guest. The RTOS will have higher priority over managment OS) You said that XVisor can be used to virtualize a RTOS. Is XVisor Real Time compliant? ...
by tskwara
Wed Feb 04, 2015 11:05 pm
Forum: HATs and other add-ons
Topic: ProtoPLC for Raspberry Pi on Kicksterter
Replies: 2
Views: 1504

ProtoPLC for Raspberry Pi on Kicksterter

... of the system is not limited by the UART speed as explained next. Real-time Performance The ProtoPLC MCU runs a real time operating system (RTOS) that handles communication with the Raspberry Pi and can manage deterministic behavior of external I/O if that is needed. While the external digital ...
by Hove
Sat Jan 10, 2015 7:33 am
Forum: Python
Topic: Python "threads"
Replies: 21
Views: 5291

Re: Python "threads"

... and did not trigger the motion processing code. It was able to collect data at 930Hz - I suspect the 70 misses per second are down to not using a RTOS or microcontroller. I had tried increasing the process niceness but os.setpriority() is only support in python 3. Time to move on, I think.
by jamesh
Sat Jan 03, 2015 12:08 pm
Forum: Automation, sensing and robotics
Topic: Can the QPUs be used for precision GPIO control?
Replies: 4
Views: 1231

Re: Can the QPUs be used for precision GPIO control?

... believe you can now program (?), it's much easier to use than the really horrible quad instruction set (blame Eben). The standard firmware uses a RTOS running on the cores to coordinate the whole system.
by nocturnal35
Fri Dec 05, 2014 6:16 pm
Forum: Beginners
Topic: interrupt on executing c program?
Replies: 10
Views: 1179

Re: interrupt on executing c program?

... with 700MHz, my pin transitions must be very fast. Because of this speed, my program crashes with the other tasks timings. Do I need to setup an rtos for this simple timing problem??
by ghans
Fri Dec 05, 2014 5:58 pm
Forum: Beginners
Topic: interrupt on executing c program?
Replies: 10
Views: 1179

Re: interrupt on executing c program?

The Pi does not run a RTOS by default , but a
Linux kernel mainly aimed at server/desktop multitasking.
Other tasks might get executed in the background in a
non-deterministic way. An RTOS would enable you to change this
behaviour with finer granularity.


ghans
by nocturnal35
Fri Dec 05, 2014 5:10 pm
Forum: Beginners
Topic: interrupt on executing c program?
Replies: 10
Views: 1179

interrupt on executing c program?

... 100 ms i.e. So, 1- Can it be about my software? 2- Can it be about the high speed of rpi, for panels? (with my fast timing) 3- Can it be about RTOS speciality of the rpi? Does it effect "my high-speed pin changing software" when executing the other OS tasks? (I've set rpi to start in command ...
by seumas
Fri Sep 05, 2014 8:11 am
Forum: Camera board
Topic: Future Support / Development for Pi Camera
Replies: 7
Views: 1623

Re: Future Support / Development for Pi Camera

... pressure sensor, and 4 ultrasonic distance sensors, all feeding from the microcontroller back into the Pi via SPI. I've learned how to code for a RTOS on the microcontroller and how to write a control daemon in python that can talk asynchronously over SPI to the microcontoller yet still get stuff ...
by PiGraham
Wed Sep 03, 2014 10:05 am
Forum: General discussion
Topic: Broadcoms BCM 4319 WICED. Wished for in next model please.
Replies: 22
Views: 7551

Re: Broadcoms BCM 4319 WICED. Wished for in next model plea

... with a JTAG programmer and single-step, thread-aware debugger based on OpenOCD and gdb. A comprehensive software stack with a choice of several RTOS/TCP stack options including ThreadX/NetX, ThreadX/NetX Duo and FreeRTOS/LwIP. Advanced security and networking features such as SSL/TLS, IPv4/IPv6 ...
by jbowler
Wed Aug 20, 2014 1:34 am
Forum: General discussion
Topic: What OS I should use for my application
Replies: 16
Views: 2637

Re: What OS I should use for my application

... My question is: What is the best option for an OS? I don't want something "heavy" I just want something " LITE " and FAST . Should I use a RTOS or a Linux based OS is better? Well, if you want Qt it has to be Windows, Symbian or un*x doesn't it? And they aren't listing Symbian any longer: ...
by plinioandrade
Tue Aug 19, 2014 3:24 pm
Forum: General discussion
Topic: What OS I should use for my application
Replies: 16
Views: 2637

What OS I should use for my application

... Qt. My question is: What is the best option for an OS? I don't want something "heavy" I just want something " LITE " and FAST . Should I use a RTOS or a Linux based OS is better? I really appreciate any comments. Sincerely, Plínio Andrade.

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