[evla-sw-discuss] RTOSes ?

[Gareth Hunt]

I was in the process of replying to this thread when Barry's note came in.

BC> It seems to me that we must decide on the MIB for including in antenna
BC> devices on very short order, and that the choice of that MIB should be
BC> based on 1.) interference minimization, 2.) an acceptable development
BC> environment (including the RTOS), and 3.) probability it will still be 
BC> around for the eVLA construction phase.

BC> Micros for other purposes do not need to be chosen immediately; when the
BC> time comes to chose them, we should assign a pretty heavy penalty to 
BC> things that do not use the same RTOS as the MIB, but not exclude them,
BC> if what we have chosen won't do the job, or does it in a grossly inconvenient
BC> way.

BC> The other applications are suffiently far in the future that I don't see
BC> them much influence the choice at this time, for example by picking an RTOS 
BC> specifically on the grounds that it would fit well in the correlator.

Within paraphrasing, this was exactly what I was writing, so now I'll just vote
with Barry.

Cheers,
Gareth.