The Inaugural Meeting of the Forum
June 27-28 2000, Austin, Texas.
The inaugural meeting of the Real-time and Embedded Systems Forum
takes place from 27th-28th
June, 2000, at The Four Seasons Hotel. The hotel is located at: 98 San
Jacinto Boulevard, Austin, TX 78701-4039, USA, Tel: +1 (512) 478-4500,
Fax (reservations): +1 (512) 477-0704
The Forum commences on the evening of the 27th June with a reception,
and concludes with a Barbecue on the evening of the 28th June.
The main session is on Wednesday, June 28th, 2000.
We have key speakers from the Real-time industry for the inaugural
meeting outlining current trends in the industry and providing
input to the Forum workplan. These include representatives
from the following organizations:
Boeing (Richard Paine), Wind River (John Fogelin), QNX (Steve Furr) , FSMLabs (Victor Yodaiken), LynuxWorks (Mitch Bunnell),
Venturcom (Myron Zimmerman) , NCITS-R1 (Russ Richards), US Army (Bill Protzman),
Mitre Corporation (Doug Jensen), OS JTF (Lt Col Glenn Logan, Curtis Royster,Jr.),
The Aerospace Corp (Sam Bowser), Mark Gerhardt (TimeSys), Steve Brosky
(Concurrent), Kevin Quick (Interphase) and others.
Agenda
0800 -- Allen Brown/ Andrew Josey -- Introduction and Road Map, this will include an overview of the aims of the Forum, including a brief update on the current standards in place and current certification and testing
requirements
0825 -- WindRiver, John Fogelin, -- Market Drivers for Real-time and Embedded Systems
1030 -- Break
1100 -- NCITS-R1, Russ Richards, -- NCITS-R1 RT Requirements
1230 -- Lunch
1330 -- Project UDI , Kevin Quick, Chairman - The UDI Project and Real-time opportunities
Andrew Josey and Champions (Doug Jensen, Mitre (RT CORBA vs RT
Java Specifications), Dave Lounsbury, The Open Group (Quality of Service),
Lt Col Glen Logan, Curtis Royster, Jr., OS-JTF (Testing and
Certification), Mark Gerhardt from TimeSys (RT Performance), Sam Bowser, The Aerospace
Corp (Security), and others as determined by Forum
1530 -- Break
1600 - ...future work cont'd
Buses will leave for the barbecue from the Hotel at 6:30 pm,
instructions will be provided on site.
If necessary, Thursday morning meeting of Group Leaders to discuss way
forward with results to be on web site by Monday Morning
Potential Work Areas
Below is an illustrative list of some of the potential areas of work (note
that the work program will be decided by the Forum members).
0850 -- FSMLabs, Victor Yodaiken, -- RTLinux and POSIX 1003.13
0915 -- QNX , Steve Furr, -- Linux Momentum Drives POSIX APIs for RTOS Vendors
0940 -- LynuxWorks, Mitch Bunnell -- LINUX + POSIX = RT UNIX
1005 -- VenturCom, Myron Zimmerman, CTO, -- RT for Windows NT
1130 -- Boeing, Richard Paine,-- Boeing's RT Requirements
1200 -- US Army, Bill Protzman (DCS Corp), -- The US Army Operating Environment - a distributed realtime solution
1400 -- Panel with speakers above
1500 -- Present possible future work of RT Forum and Vote on priorities --
1620 -- Result of votes on Work Areas
1630 -- Break out for 6 future forum work areas
1730 -- Short recap 5 Minutes each from work panel chairs.
1800 -- Break for Barbecue
- Standards and Certification of Real-time Operating Systems
- Meeting End-to-End Real-time Deadlines across the Network
- Real-time behavior on the Microsoft Windows NT platform
- Adding Real-time Semantics to Uniform Driver Interface
- Quality of Service and the World Wide Web
Next Meeting
The preliminary date for the next meeting is Washington in the
last week of October -- at least three days --
Wednesday - Friday
Contact
Andrew Josey, Director, Platform Program,
for more information
Speaker Biographies (in alphabetical order)
Sam Bowser,Phd., Senior Project Engineer, The Aerospace Corporation
Dr. Bowser is a Senior Project Engineer working for The Aerospace Corporation
at Chantilly, Virginia. He has over thirty years of experience in the
development and fielding of complex system with a focus on military
applications. He is a human factors engineer as well as an information
technology professional and a systems engineer. His career has covered
systems in each of the military services and cross service joint system. The
applications have been diverse including weapons, communication, sensors,
command and control, and satellites. He has spent the last ten years engaged
in the development and application of information technology standards to
specialized military systems. He is currently the representative to the DoD
Joint Architecture Development Group, DoD Technical Architecture Steering
Group, and numerous other committees and panels in support of his government
sponsor. He is active in the real time community and currently participating
as the chair of the security committee of the DII COE Real Time Technical
Working Group.
Mitchell Bunnell co-founded Digital Lynx, in Dallas, Texas in 1986
with his brother Michael. In 1988, the company moved to California and
was re-incorporated as Lynx.
Mitch was the main designer of the LynxOS
kernel, which is the core technology of the company, and served as Lynx'
Vice President of Engineering. He is now responsible for the development
of LynuxWorks's future technology strategy, in addition to developing
evolutionary, key enhancements to LynxOS. Prior to founding Digital Lynx,
he worked on real-time projects as a programmer and consultant in order
to help fund his university education. He developed software for oil pump
motor control, petroleum distillation, high-speed data acquisition for
wind tunnel testing, and video games. Mitch also serves as a director
on LynuxWorks's Board of Directors. He holds a BSEE Summa Cum Laude from
the University of Houston.
Fogelin, the company's sixth employee, began as "staff carpenter" for Wind
River in 1987 building shelves for computers. From this auspicious start,
he went on to the wind(r) microkernel, which resides at the heart of the
VxWorks(r) run-time system. Subsequently, he led the development team
that built the revolutionary Tornado(tm) project. Today Fogelin oversees
all aspects of research and development for the Tornado tools and VxWorks
operating system, the technologies at the center of Wind River software.
Before joining Wind River, Fogelin designed hardware for embedded
applications used in devices ranging from biomedical equipment to
arcade games.
His interest in engineering is not limited to software, however. He
has also crafted a sea-worthy kayak, as well as a guitar and is in the
process of restoring his 1962 Volvo.
Steve Furr, Senior Developer, QNX Systems
Steve is a senior developer at QNX Systems. He currently works on the
QNX Neutrinos RTOS, and is also a core member of the Real Time Expert
group formed under Sun's Java Community Process to develop a specification
for realtime extensions to the Java API.
Mark Gerhardt, Chief Architect , TimeSys Corporation
Mark is currently involved with refining and using methodologies for
real-time objected oriented architecture development. He is frequently
called upon to teach and lecture on Object-Oriented systems, Real-Time
systems, and their architectural implications.
Mark Gerhardt has been working in the real-time industry for more
than thirty years. He been involved in the architecture, design, and
implementation of numerous real-time systems especially in the areas
of signal and radar processing, special-purpose embedded and real-time
computers, and fault tolerant systems as well as having designed and
implemented major embedded software applications including C3I and
early-warning receivers.
Mark's key technical interests include software and systems engineering
methods, system and software architecture, object-oriented architectures,
designs, and programming languages (including extensive contributions to
the Ada 95 language.) He has been extensively involved in related research
and teaching, having co-developed several courses on Object-Oriented
systems, Real-Time systems, and Ada.
He has been involved in several standards activities in related fields,
including Real-Time CORBA. He is currently involved with standardization
of the set of extensions to UML for use in Real-Time systems being
developed by the Object Management Group. Mark is the Past Chair of ACM's
SIGAda and was a Distinguished Reviewer for Ada9X (now called Ada 95.)
Mark received his Bachelor of Electrical Engineering degree Magna Cum
Laude from the City College of New York in 1967 and his Master of Science
in Engineering (Computer Science) from Princeton University in 1968.
E. Douglas Jensen is the Consulting Scientist for the Information
Technologies Directorate in the Center for Air Force C2 Systems at the
MITRE Corporation's Bedford, MA, headquarters. MITRE is a non-profit,
public service, corporation which owns three federally funded research
and development centers -- it is an international leader in the
systems engineering of large, complex information systems, especially
(but not exclusively) military command and control, and air traffic
control, systems. His principal interest is conducting research,
advanced technology development, and technology transfer in the field
of distributed object systems having adaptive, application-level,
multi-dimensional, end-to-end quality of service (e.g., timeliness,
availability, security) for control applications. He came to MITRE in
1998 from similar positions at Hewlett Packard, Digital Equipment Corp.,
Concurrent Computer Corp., and KSR. Prior to that, he was on the faculty
of the Computer Science Department at Carnegie Mellon University, from
1979 to 1987. From 1965 to 1979, he was employed in the real-time computer
industry, where he engaged in research and advanced technology development
of distributed real-time computer systems, hardware, and software for the
defense and industrial automation domains. He is generally recognized as
one of the original pioneers, and leading visionaries, of distributed
real-time computer systems, and is widely sought throughout the world
as a speaker and consultant.
Andrew Josey is director for the Platform Program within The Open Group
that includes the Real-time 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.
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.
Andrew has worked in the Open Systems industry since 1987, working previously
for AT&T UNIX Europe, UNIX System Laboratories and Novell prior
to joining the Open Group in 1996.
He has a first class honours degree in Combined Sciences from Brighton
Polytechnic, and an MSc in Computer Science from University College, London
University.
Richard H. Paine works in a research and technology organization for
The Boeing Company in Seattle, Washington, USA. He has worked in the
computer data networking field for twenty three years and at The Boeing
Company for 13 years.
Mr Paine first worked for the Air Force, writing network protocols in
assembler language and then leading FORTRAN and real-time programming
organizations. He was commander of a computer center in the United
Kingdom and then moved back to the states, working in the design,
contract, and implementation of a worldwide weather graphics network.
His work at Boeing consists of work in multi-level secure local area
networks, in the logical design of the network for the defense and
space side of the company, and then moved into developing strategic
architectures for the research and technology side of the aerospace
business. He has led such projects within Boeing as the Web, Wireless
and Mobility, Communications Security, Voice Over IP, and the Directory
Enabled Network.
Lt Col Logan is assigned to the DoD Open Systems Joint Task Force and
directs a multi-disciplined government/industry team responsible for
accelerating application of open systems concepts to weapon systems.
He has over 20 years experience in systems acquisition including
space launch vehicles, nuclear test ban treaty monitoring and modular
avionics.
Colonel Logan is a distinguished graduate of the University
of Louisiana - Lafayette and earned a Masters of Science in Electrical
Engineering from the Air Force Institute of Technology.
Mr. Protzman is an engineer with DCS Corporation, and for the past
seven years has supported the Tank Automotive Research and Development
Engineering Center (TARDEC) in the development and evolution of real time
distributed embedded systems architectures for ground vehicle systems.
In support of this effort, Mr. Protzman has worked with various Government
and industry working groups and standards committees, including the
Army Weapon Systems Technical Architecture Working Group (WSTAWG)
and the IEEE Portable Application Standards Committee (PASC). He has
been a key contributor and author of the WSTAWG Operating Environment
(OE) Application Programmer Interface (API), a real time distributed
computing environment for embedded systems. Prior to his employment
with DCS, Mr. Protzman worked in the Aerospace Software Division of the
Westinghouse Electric Corporation supporting the design, development,
and integration of real time embedded software for RADARs and FLIRs
within avionics systems. Mr. Protzman is also the chairman of NCITS H3,
the ANSI accredited standards committee which serves as the ISO JTC 1
SC24 counterpart and which is responsible for the standardization of
computer graphics and imaging technologies within the US.
The US Army Operating Environment - a distributed realtime solution
The Weapon System Technical Architecture Working Group (WSTAWG) Operating
Environment (OE) Application Programmer's Interface (API) provides a
standardized interface to a set of distributable objects, which can
be utilized to provide a foundation and infrastructure supporting the
creation of rehostable distributed real time embedded weapon systems
applications. The OE API has been defined in accordance with the Army
Weapon System Technical Architecture Working Group (WSTAWG), such that it
provides a common set of services required to support the development and
integration of systems throughout the weapon systems subdomains (Aviation,
Ground Vehicle, Missile, Munitions, and Soldier). In addition, the OE
API has been defined in a scaleable, extensible, language independent
manner such that it can be tailored to application specific requirements
(e.g. level of functionality, programming language, etc.), resulting in
an increased potential for application reuse throughout the Army weapon
system domain.
The OE API defines the detailed concepts, functionality, and interfaces
required to support the development of both OE implementations
and applications. In addition, the OE API addresses the underlying
architectural support issues of embedded real time systems in order to
define the behavior and operation of the OE within the weapon systems
application environment.
Kevin Quick has been a lead engineer in design and development at
Interphase Corporation in Dallas, Texas for over 6 years, developing
host adapter software for various network and protocol-based products,
with a particular focus on Fibre Channel in the last several years.
Prior to Interphase he was part of a 5-person startup designing serial
WAN products and before that was a developer at Simpact Associates in
San Diego, California, working on X.25 serial protocol support.
Kevin is also the Chairman of Project UDI, which is a public
multi-vendor specifications group developing uniform interfaces for
device drivers to support host adapters in multiple and diverse
environments
(see http://www.project-udi.org/).
Kevin holds a Bachelor of Science in Engineering from Harvey Mudd
College in Claremont, CA.
Within the Center for Information Technology Standards, Mr. Richards
is responsible for identification of DoD information technology
requirements, assessment of the sufficiency of commercial standards to
meet those requirements, determination and initiation of actions to
correct deficiencies and to develop test and certification projects.
In addition to his responsibilities as division chief, Mr. Richards
represents the DoD in a broad number of information and communications
standards bodies. He is currently the Chair of the NCITS Technical
Committee R-1, Real-time Computing
Mr. Royster is responsible for overseeing the implementation of the Department
of Defense's architecture tools, development and implementation, Open
Systems policy including the use of widely supported, commercial,
interface standards in the design and acquisition of command/control
systems and weapons systems.
Mr. Royster is the technical lead for the next generation
Real-time Defense
Information Infrastructure Common Operating Environment for DoD
architecture implementation, and is also a Vice-Chair of IEEE
PASC .
Curtis received his Bachelor of Science in Computer System Science
from the University of District of Columbia in 1982, and his Master of
Science in Systems Engineering from George Mason University in 1998.
Victor Yodaiken is founder of FSMLabs and the creator of RTLinux. Yodaiken
has worked on operating systems since the early 1980s when he was one of
the primary designers of of distributed fault tolerant UNIX system for a
company called Auragen. More recently Yodaiken was a professor and chair
of computer science at the New Mexico Institute of Technology in Socoro
New Mexico. Currently Yodaiken manages FSMLabs, a company founded in
1998 to provide commercial support and consulting for RTLinux.
Making POSIX 1003.13 fit for the real world
RTLinux: Realtime Linux began with a handmade simple API and rapidly
acquired a large user base and many applications in fields as diverse as
multimedia and telecom. For the last year, FSMlabs have tried to migrate
users and applications towards the POSIX 10003.13 PE51 standard. In this
talk we will discuss implementation issues, problems and advantages
of this standard when it meets real applications and a need to push
performance to hardware limits.
Myron Zimmerman is responsible for VenturCom's technology and product planning.
For eleven years prior to reorganizing the company and redefining his role
in 1995, Zimmerman served as VenturCom's president. During this period,
he led the company from being a consulting-based business that managed
major UNIX software development contracts to a growing product-oriented
company. Immediately after co-founding VenturCom in 1980 with colleagues
from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Zimmerman served as
the company's director of engineering.
Earlier in his career, Zimmerman co-founded PDS -- a provider of pre-term
labor-monitor products and other medical diagnostic products -- as well
as Bos/TEN (Boston Technical Executive Network), a support group of high
technology CEO's in the Greater Boston area. In addition, he is the
director of a family-owned concrete equipment manufacturing business.
Zimmerman holds Bachelor of Science degrees, Cum Laude, in Physics and
Mathematics (highest honors in Physics) from Juniata College (Huntingdon,
PA), and a Ph.D. in Atomic Physics from the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology (Cambridge, MA).
Real-time for Windows NT
This talk with cover Real-time for Windows NT/2000, giving an
overview of the current state of Windows NT. This will include
an overview of Windows NT Embedded,
the Real-time API for Windows drivers and applications,
and the RTX real-time extension for Windows NT
The talk will include a performance comparision - WinCE, WinNT and RTX
and look at the Real-time software component model for Windows.
Mitchell Bunnell, Chief Technology Officer, LynuxWorks
John Fogelin - Vice President, Engineering for Platforms and Tools, Wind River
E. Douglas Jensen, Consulting Scientist , Mitre Corporation
Andrew Josey, Director of Server Platforms, The Open Group
Richard H. Paine, The Boeing Company
Glen T. Logan, Lt Col, USAF
Bill Protzman , DCS Corp.
Kevin Quick, Systems Architect, Interphase Corporation
Russell Richards Chief, Information Processing Standards
Division in the Center for Information Technology Standards, Joint
Interoperability Engineering Organization in the Defense Information
Systems Agency (DISA).
Curtis Royster, Jr.Chief of Architecture, Requirements, and Interoperability Assessments, Center for Information Technology Standards, Joint Interoperability Engineering Organization,
Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA).
Victor Yodaiken, President, FSMlabs
Myron L. Zimmerman, Chief Technology Officer and Co-founder Venturcom,
