Technology in the Real-Time Industry

Articles and Research from Tri-Pacific Software

Technology Backgrounders

Algorithms and Protocols. Provides a glossary of scheduling terms.
Rate Monotonic Analysis (RMA). Discusses RMA and its importance.

Research Projects and White Papers

List of Research Projects. Presents brief summaries of our research projects.
List of White Papers. These papers discuss the technology in our products.

User Group for Rate Monotonic Analysis (RMA)

RMA User Group. Join a mailing list for an RMA User Group.

Articles and Information from the Industry

Individual Articles

Watch Ron Fredericks lecture on “Designing Predictable Real-Time Systems” presented at the 2005 Embedded Systems Conference in San Francisco. Ron discusses real-time systems development and how Rate Monotonic Analysis (RMA) improves the development process. He describes how Tri-Pacific Software UML tools bring RMA into the standard development process and make RMA analyses even easier.

CORBA Goes Real-Time. Presents a timely discussion about Real-Time CORBA standards under consideration in the OMG.

Rate Monotonic Analysis Keeps Real-Time Systems on Schedule. Discusses RMA and using tools that support RMA.

Timing Analysis of the X-38 Space Station Crew Return Vehicle Avionics. Presents a case study of timing analysis with comparison of several commercially available products.

Links to Recommended Websites

Industry Organization Sites

Cetus.org: A great general index to discussions about object-oriented development, including architecture, analysis, design, programming, language, database, and etc.

Object Management Group (OMG): The primary standards body for CORBA and other specifications and technologies.

EG3 Communications, Inc. (eg3.com). A web resource devoted to electronic design, providing internet information indexes and vendor summaries for board-level, DSP, real-time, and embedded systems.

Industry Vendor Sites