The European Space Agency has qualified the RTEMS open-source real-time operating system for safety-critical multi-processing in satellites. Railway, medical and automotive sectors could benefit. “ESA certified RTEMS in the symmetric multiprocessing configuration for Criticality Category C and D,” said German RTEMS support company Embedded Brains. “This means that safety-critical functions can now also be executed ...

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