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Absolutely not.

Absolutely not.

Posted Oct 9, 2009 3:51 UTC (Fri) by magnus (subscriber, #34778)
In reply to: Absolutely not. by khim
Parent article: Scenes from the Real Time Linux Workshop

If need hard realtime then you need to pay HUGE sums and can reduce it to 10 or so. Beyond that... you are stuck.
In some cases you can add a dedicated FPGA or microcontroller to handle the realtime stuff and leave the computer to do less timing-critical (but more complex) work. If the problem can be split this way it's usually the simplest solution (IMO).


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