The world's smallest automotive real-time operating system
Robert Davis, Ken Tindell, Neil Audsley, Alan Burns, Andy Wellings
- Underpinning Research: Schedulability Analysis for fixed priority scheduling guaranteeing the timing behaviour of real-time embedded systems using a Real-Time Operating Systems (RTOS) and fixed priority scheduling.
- Technology: Analysis tools and the exceptionally small and efficient RTA-OSEK and RTA-OS operating systems.
- Vehicle for Impact: Start-up Company (Technology now owned by Mentor Graphics).
- Impact: The RTOS has been standardised upon by many of the world’s leading automotive powertrain systems and chassis electronics suppliers, and is used in cars produced by nearly all of the world's major car manufacturers. By 2015, the RTOS had been deployed in over one billion ECUs (Electronic Control Units). This number is increasing at the quite astonishing rate of 1 to 2 million new ECUs per week.
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Professor Iain Bate
Real-Time and Distributed Systems Research Group lead
Related links
Impact Case Study White Paper:
"The world's smallest automotive real-time operating system" (PDF)
Read the article:
"How Research at York fuelled a revolution in Automotive Electronics"
Contact us
Professor Iain Bate
Real-Time and Distributed Systems Research Group lead
Related links
Impact Case Study White Paper:
"The world's smallest automotive real-time operating system" (PDF)
Read the article:
"How Research at York fuelled a revolution in Automotive Electronics"