Real-Time Operating Systems and Standards

This chapter presents a brief overview of the state of art of real-time systems and standards. We first discuss the most common operating systems standard interfaces that play a major role for developing portable real-time applications. Then, we give a brief description of the most used commercial and open source real-time kernels available today, including some research kernels developed within the academia to experiment novel features and lead the future development. We finally present a set of development tools that can be used to speed up system analysis and implementation.