DRTX initiative

Common objective for real time executive.

With the sophistication of microcontroller and the advance of modern communication stack and bus technology the environment a microcontroller is used now is ever more complex. The increasingly complex environment is fuelling the need for a context switching executive to handle background tasks.

In most embedded control environment, time-critical functions are likely to be shifted to hardware or interrupt driven routines, leaving the executive to do non-realtime tasks, nonetheless the response time is still the emphasis, the trade-off between response time and throughput is carefully considered.

The consideration of plugging in a real time executive to existing loop based task handling is taken into account.

Resource monitoring and instrumentation of the RTX is a key component of the design. Intregrating these functionalities to existing open source tool will be preferred over non-standard tools.

The inclusion of a standard IP stack, USB bus will form part of the DRTX framework.