About the Real-time and Embedded Systems Forum
Our mission is to offer all organizations
concerned with real-time and embedded systems solutions a forum, where
we can share knowledge, integrate open initiatives, and certify
approved products and processes. Towards that end, the Real-time
and Embedded Systems Forum is holding an open plenary session
at this conference focussing on solutions in the market today,
followed by working group sessions on the thursday.
Wednesday (Open to non-members)
0800-0900 Registration, Coffee and Continental Breakfast
0900-0920 Introduction -- Andrew Josey, Director Server Platforms, The Open Group
0920-1000 Embedded Linux - Standards, Challenges, Obstacles -
A Red Hat Perspective -- Manfred Hollstein, Red Hat
1000-1030 The POSIX® Standards Update -
-- Joseph M. Gwinn, IEEE PASC SSWG Realtime Working Group Chair,
Andrew Josey, IEEE 1003.1 Chair.
1030 -- Break
1100-1145 The Distributed Real-Time Specification for Java, Douglas M. Wells, The Open Group.
The Distributed Real-Time Specification for Java request (JSR-50)
has been recently approved for the purpose of providing acceptable
predictability of end-to-end timeliness of trans-node activities
within Java applications. Building upon the recently published
Real-Time Specification for Java, the DRTSJ expert group expects
to extend Java's Remote Method Invocation (RMI) to support control
flow style real-time distributed object systems. This presentation
discusses the initial goals for coherent control flow across multiple
nodes and enabling application-defined criteria for data consistency
and failure detection.
1145-1230 J Consortium Specification "Real-Time Data Access" -- Wolfgang Hartmann, Siemens AG
Sun ("The Real-Time Specification for Java") and the J Consortium
("Real-Time Core Extensions") have published specifications for a
real-time Java. The basic concepts of both specifications are quite
different, however they conform providing the functionality of internal
processing comprehensively. This focus is not suitable for the
applications in the field of industrial automation. As a consequence
the J Consortium founded the "Real-Time Data Access Working Group"
which is working on the "Real-Time Data Access" (RTDA) specification
for further standardization. As implied by the name, the focus is set
on the data access that is characteristic for the industrial automation
(event signaling, accessing digital I/O, ADC, DAC, etc.) and which can
be applied to the RT and the non-RT domain as well. The RTDA
specification provides for complete device-independence which is
significant for the definition of a uniform data access API. The
functional provision for hard real-time processing has been reduced to
a minimum. Nonetheless extremely short response times can be achieved
which are comparable with response times resulting from e.g. a C-based
implementation. The typical architecture of application systems is
also reflected insofar as hard real-time is usually only required for a
small part of the complete system.
1230-1400 -- Lunch
1400 -- 1445 Marcelo Masera, Joint Research Centre - European Commission Institute for Systems, Informatics and Safety Dependable Software Applications Group
TP210
The area of dependability of information infrastructures has been the
object of special attention by different states and international
organisations for its broad and critical implications for society.
Concerns are high because incidents with such systems may not only
provoke grave losses to single organisations, but also have
repercussions all through society and even affecting the security of a
country. This session will look at the results of a recent workshop
in this area, with emphasis on the connotations that the problem of
critical infrastructures has on embedded systems.
1445-1530 An overview of Real-time Linux, Bernhard Kuhn, Lineo
Linux already has some soft real-time capabilities, but these are often
not sufficient for applications in the areas of multimedia devices
(such as settop boxes or game consoles) and machine control systems.
There are several methods to archive guaranteed timings to fit the
advanced needs. This talk will discuss the differant flavours and
shows which real-time Linux extension is the best one for which type of
application.
1530 -- 1600 Break
1600 -- 1700 Panel Session and Discussion
Closing
Speaker Biographies (in alphabetical order)
Andrew Josey, Director of Server Platforms, The Open Group
Andrew Josey is director for the Platform Program within The Open Group
that includes the Real-time and Embedded Systems Forum and the UNIX System
certification and specification development.
Presently, Andrew chairs the Austin Group, the working group
responsible for development of the joint revision to POSIX 1003.1,
POSIX 1003.2 and the Single UNIX Specification. He is the IEEE P1003.1
chair and the PASC Functional chair of Interpretations. He also
manages development of the Open Group's Real-time and embedded test suites.
Andrew is the advocate for Linux and Open Source within the Open Group
and represents the Open Group at the Linux Standard Base project. He
manages the Open Source versions of several of The Open Group's
test frameworks and test suites.
Bernhard Kuhn , Software Engineer, Lineo, Inc
Bernhard Kuhn studied electrical engineering and
then spent two years as Ph. D. student on component
oriented hardware/software codesign in the areas
of embedded and real time systems. Afterwards, he
has done over 50 publications within nearly two years
working as test engineerer and hardware editor for
the German "Linux Magazin" and as co-editor of the
British "Linux Magazine". Today, he is working
as software engineerer at Lineo Inc. in the areas
of real-time and embedded systems. Bernhard Kuhn
is a foundation member of the "Federation for
a Free Informational Infrastructure" fighting
against software patents. He has also served on the
Board of Directors of the Real Time Linux Foundation.
Marcelo Masera, Scientific Officer, Joint Research Centre, The European Commission
Marcelo Masera is a scientific officer at the Joint Research Centre of
the European Commission. He works at the Reliable Information
Technologies unit, in the Dependable Software Applications group. This
group supports the policies in areas such as the European Dependability
Initiative (R&D Framework programme), and the links within Trust and
confidence in the Information Society and the underpinning
technologies. His areas of interest are: dependability, information
infrastructures, embedded systems.
Wolfgang Hartmann,Project Manager, Siemens AG
Wolfgang Hartmann is working in a research group of Siemens A&D and is
engaged in the topic Real-Time Java in the industrial automation for
several years. Since the foundation of the J Consortium in May 1999 he
is a member of the Real-Time Data Access Working Group.
Manfred Hollstein, Senior Architect GNU/Linux Solutions, Red Hat, Inc
Manfred studied compiler construction in the 80s. Based on that experience,
he worked with AEG in Germany on compilers and runtime systems, before
joining the German super-computer project "Suprenum". During this
work he designed the concept of a source level debugger allowing the
developers to debug their distributed applications. Since 1991 he has been
contributing to the GNU project, working on
a wide variety of packages, the most important being GNU gcc,
libg++, libstdc++, gdb, and binutils. Equipped with this experience
he joined Cygnus Solutions in 1999, and since that time he is
responsible for identifying the opportunities for embedded Linux.
Joseph M. Gwinn, Chair of the IEEE PASC Real-time System Services Working Group
Mr. Gwinn has been building , adapting and using real-time embedded
operating systems for 25 years, most recently for a large US defense
contractor. He holds degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science,
and is the Vice-Chair of the POSIX System Services Working Group (SSWG),
and is also the Chair of the Real-time subgroup of the SSWG.
Douglas M. Wells, Director of System Technology, The Open Group
Mr. Wells is working with the DARPA Quorum community to integrate
resource and fault management components into a multi-level QoS
toolkit. He led the Real-Time and Adaptivity groups at The Open
Group Research Institute in developing commercial-grade QoS-aware
components and in applying those components within real-world
applications, including the Navy's AEGIS and the Air Force's AWACS
weapons systems. Previously, he managed projects at Concurrent
Computer Corporation in secure, real-time, distributed systems.
Mr. Wells has also served as architect and project leader for
real-time and distributed system development at several companies,
including Stratus Computer, Data General and MIT. He holds 10
patents on performance and security aspects of multi-domain,
object-based systems and is currently a member of Distributed
Real-Time Specification for Java expert group.
Thursday Morning
09:00-11:00 Working Group session - open to non-members by invitation
This session is a joint session with the Quality of Service
Task Force
The Real-time and Embedded Systems Forum will be holding a joint
session with the Quality of Service task force to look specifically
at the Quality of Service aspects for Real-time and Embedded Systems.
1. Introductions
2. Presentation by QoS Task Force
5. Future of Joint WG
Note that if this session overruns the following session will commence
later than planned.
11:00-17:00 Working Group sessions - open to non-members by invitation
These are working sessions of the Forum:
1. Introductions
2. Status of current working groups - report backs from
San Jose.
3. A RoadMap for the Forum -- Discussion
4. Liaison reports
Linux Standard Base Update
As an informational session, following on from a request at
the last meeting there will be an update on the status of the
Linux Standards Base efforts.
5. New work items
Dave Emery -- High Reliability and Safe Software
6. Testing and Product Certification group
An update on POSIX profile testing for 1003.13
7. Profiles Working Group
-Briefings on profiling activities in other standards groups,
and consortia-
IEEE PASC (1003.13)
-POSIX.1 Revision Subprofiling Update
A presentation will be given of the changes in POSIX.1
for subprofiling, enabling a new set of "units of functionality"
as per POSIX 1003.13.
-Evolution of the Real-time and Embedded product standards
POSIX certification to date has been based around
supersets of the original POSIX.1 standard. For some
devices this is too large a footprint, and so there is
a gap in the certification efforts for systems below
what is now termed a Profile 54 system.
The current Multipurpose Real-time Operating system product
standard was an attempt to bridge some of this gap by
profiling 1003.1b and 1003.1c, see URL
http://www.opengroup.org/branding/prodstds/x98rt.htm
However it did not address the smaller profiles such as those
in IEEE Std 1003.13. With the test development effort to
address smaller footprint profiles we need to be considering
building a product standard in support of a certification program
for this.
This discussion should focus on the requirements for a
new certification program built around the smaller profiles,
are there additional APIs or standards that should be included.
8. Security Working Group
(further agenda to follow)
A teleconference will be setup for those not
in Berlin.
9. Next conferences
10. AOB
This session will give an overview of the Real-time and Embedded
Systems Forum, its mission and an outline of the current activities.
3. Presentation by Real-Time
4. Open Discussion and Prioritization of the Issues Identified above
QoS specification techniques-
how to specify and test for quality of service.
Identifying requirements to be explored
Possible work items,
Outline roadmap
Status updates from other related industry & standards groups -
SAE, NCITS R1, UDI Consortium, J Consortium, IEEE PASC
POSIX Conformance paper
Austin
Amsterdam
