Cablecam Wows Football Fans with RTLinux.RTLinux-Powered Sky-Cameras Fly over NFL NFL abbr. National Football League NFL (US) n abbr (= National Football League) → Fußball-Nationalliga and NCAA NCAA abbr. National Collegiate Athletic Association Games This Season SOCORRO, N.M. -- FSMLabs (http://www.fsmlabs.com) announced today that its flagship RTLinux real-time software is now being used in Cablecam flying cameras used to film NFL and other sporting events. Cablecam is a provider of footage for NFL and NCAA football games as well as for the motion picture industry. "Flying expensive cameras 12-50 feet in the air above football stars on live TV is a mission-critical application," explained Cablecam founder Jim Rudnusky. "RTLinux was chosen for its reliability: it keeps personnel safe and ensures that the camera keeps flying when the game is on the air. The deterministic timing available from RTLinux is crucial to achieving smooth motor motion at high torque. The Cablecam application could not be achieved by anything less than a hard real-time OS." The Cablecam technology consists of a camera dolly on cables controlled by motorized mo·tor·ize tr.v. mo·tor·ized, mo·tor·iz·ing, mo·tor·iz·es 1. To equip with a motor. 2. To supply with motor-driven vehicles. 3. To provide with automobiles. winches. The 100-pound camera dolly is flown by a live operator, its position updated 200 times per second by 20 horsepower motors spinning at speeds up to 3000 RPM. At the heart of Cablecam's system is its Overdrive motion control software, which relies on RTLinux as its hard real-time engine. A pair of embedded computers stream motion over fiber optics to motor drives. A custom graphical user interface graphical user interface (GUI) Computer display format that allows the user to select commands, call up files, start programs, and do other routine tasks by using a mouse to point to pictorial symbols (icons) or lists of menu choices on the screen as opposed to having to allows rapid reconfiguration during live events. Cablecam uses FSMLabs' reliable RTCore virtualization platform, which ensures that mission-critical tasks run on schedule. RTCore provides the necessary isolation so that real-time applications can coexist peacefully with sophisticated Linux-based application stacks, such as user interfaces and enterprise applications. "Our customers appreciate the quality and reliability of Linux, its rich selection of applications and standards-based interoperability," noted Dr. Victor Yodaiken, FSMLabs founder and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. . "Our customers can take advantage of the rich toolset that Linux offers, knowing that behind the scenes, RTCore ensures that their hard real-time applications will run on-time, even under extremely demanding conditions." Availability RTLinux is the ideal platform for wide range of control applications, as well as application enabling components for real-time networking (LNet) and user interface elements (Controls Kit). These and other FSMLabs products are available immediately direct from FSMLabs, and from its distributors and representatives worldwide. Contact FSMLabs or visit http://www.fsmlabs.com for local distributor contacts and for pricing information. About FSMLabs FSMLabs is the leading provider of secure hard real-time performance enabling technologies for Linux and BSD operating systems There are a number of Unix-like operating systems under active development, descended from the Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD) series of UNIX variants. Currently, there are four major BSD operating systems, and an increasing number of other OSs derived from these, that add or remove running on Mobile, Enterprise and Embedded Systems devices. When failure is not an option and security is a must for mission-critical and moolah-critical systems, FSMLabs' patented RTCore, turns Linux and BSD (Berkeley Software Distribution) The software distribution facility of the Computer Systems Research Group (CSRG) of the University of California at Berkeley. GPOS's, such as Red Hat, SUSE, NetBSD and FreeBSD, into NSA NSA abbr. National Security Agency Noun 1. NSA - the United States cryptologic organization that coordinates and directs highly specialized activities to protect United States information systems and to produce foreign compliant, secure high nanosecond/low microsecond One millionth of a second. See space/time and ohnosecond. (unit) microsecond - One millionth (10^-6) of a second. deterministic hard real-time operating systems (SRTOS/RTOS). FSMLabs products are designed for reliability and simplicity of operation, thus by combining the best-in-class enterprise operating systems (Linux and BSD), with FSMLabs' responsive hard real-time threading, scheduling, networking and virtualization technology (RTCore), technology companies can develop, deploy and deliver to market unbeatable robust, secure and performance products on-time and under budget. FSMLabs was founded in 1996 and is privately held, profitable, debt free and rapidly growing with headquarters in New Mexico and sales and engineering staff worldwide. FSMLabs products include RTTimeSync, RTLinux, RTCoreBSD, LNet (zero-copy deterministic hard-real-time networking), PSDD PSDD Planetary Science Data Dictionary PSDD Preliminary System Design Description PSDD Preliminary Software Design Document PSDD Preliminary System Description Document PSDD Platform Starboard Door Dogged (hard-real-time memory protection of users processes), VxIT (legacy emulation and migration tool), OSDL See Linux Foundation. Registered Carrier Grade RTLinux, RTCore Eclipse IDE and ControlsKit (hard-real-time XML/RPC interface builder). For more information, visit www.fsmlabs.com or email sales@fsmlabs.com. RTLinux, RTCore, LNet, PSDD, ControlsKit, and FSMLabs are registered trademarks of Finite State Machine See state machine. (mathematics, algorithm, theory) Finite State Machine - (FSM or "Finite State Automaton", "transducer") An abstract machine consisting of a set of states (including the initial state), a set of input events, a set of output events, and a state transition Labs Inc. "Embedded Enterprise" is a trademark of FSMLabs. Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds. All other trademarks are the property of their respective organizations. FSMLabs...Hard Real-Time Deterministic Solutions for Linux & BSD |
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