Linux Support for VMETRO's Recorder and I/O Product Lines.HOUSTON & OSLO, Norway -- VMETRO offers Linux support for the Vortex Recorder family and the PowerMIDAS 5000 single board computer and I/O (Input/Output) The transfer of data between the CPU and a peripheral device. Every transfer is an output from one device and an input to another. See PC input/output. I/O - Input/Output carrier. The Vortex VME (Virtual Machine Environment) An operating system from Fujitsu Services (formerly ICL) that runs on its Series 39 mainframes. Introduced in 1975, VME is a comprehensive product that provides a variety of utilities for datacenter operations. , CompactPCI and PC Recorders and the PowerMIDAS 5000 (VME and CompactPCI) Board Support Packages now support Linux in addition to VxWorks and Windows platforms. This support enables integration of 3rd party PMC (1) See Portable Media Center. (2) (PCI Mezzanine Card) A PCI-based mezzanine card that is widely adapted to VMEbus, CompactPCI and PCI cards. and PCI cards with Linux drivers, allowing access to a wider range of I/O modules. For VME and CompactPCI-based products, VMETRO supports embedded Linux The Linux operating system configured and enhanced to work in a wide variety of applications, including handheld devices, network appliances, industrial machines and consumer electronics devices. The modularity of the Linux kernel makes it well suited to embedded systems. distributions based on version 2.6 of the open-source Linux kernel The nucleus of the Linux operating system. The Linux kernel, which was developed by Linus Torvalds, was integrated with software from the GNU Project and other sources to create the actual Linux operating system. See Linux, GNU/Linux and kernel. for improved real-time performance. The distributions are compatible with TimeStorm(R) Linux Development Kits from TimeSys. For the PC-based products, most available distributions are supported. "We expect the introduction of Linux to open up new application areas and make our application framework more accessible to customers who want to carry out their own software development on our platforms for high-performance embedded computing and recording," says Harald Schibbye, Product Manager at VMETRO. |
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