Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2000 22:07:33 -0700
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From: Bill Krauss <bkrauss@mediaone.net>
Subject: Bringing Matlab & Simulink to RTLinux



FSMLabs RTLinux and Quanser bring Matlab/Simulink to RTLinux

(Socorro, New Mexico; Markham, Canada -- October 14, 2000) Finite 
State Machine Labs Inc. (FSMLabs) and Quanser Inc. announced today 
that they are joining together to support Quanser's SimulinuxRT (SLX) 
products on RTLinux. SimulinuxRT brings Mathworks industry standard 
Matlab, Simulink and RealTime Workshop products to RTLinux with 
exceptional performance. With SimulinkRT, engineers and scientists 
can develop RTLinux control applications by drawing Simulink diagrams 
- without any programming and with up to 50kHz rates on standard PCs. 
Because the non-realtime components of SLX run in Linux, all the 
power of the networked Linux environment and all the development 
tools available in Linux are available as well.

Under the FSMLabs/Quanser partnership, FSMLabs provides RTLinux 
support to Quanser - the exclusive FSMLabs partner for Simulink and 
Realtime Workshop. SLX will ship with both FSMLabs V2.3 and V3.0 
RTLinux CDs. These distributions are based on the RedHat 6.2 release, 
which is augmented with RTLinux hard realtime-enabled Linux kernels, 
the RTLinux realtime kernel and related software. Quanser and FSMLabs 
will work together to assure the reliability and performance of 
Quanser software on RTLinux.

"Quanser customers know that Quanser's support staff will have the 
full backing of the RTLinux development team," says Victor Yodaiken, 
President of FSMLabs. "The partnership with FSMLabs assures us of 
rock solid operating system support with cutting edge performance, 
and also commits both partners to an exciting technical roadmap," 
says Quanser President Jacob Apkarian.

RTLinux is an open source hard realtime operating system that follows 
the POSIX 1003.13 PSE51 profile. It is a small, highly optimized 
realtime kernel providing the POSIX threads and signals API, 
supporting hard realtime applications running close to the bare 
machine. RTLinux runs Linux as its lowest priority fully preemptible 
thread. Realtime threads use signals, shared memory and a read/write 
device interface to communicate with Linux user processes, enabling 
application developers to draw on the full power of Linux for 
everything from networking to databases, without sacrificing realtime 
performance. RTLinux users include NASA, Compaq, the Jim Henson 
Creature Shop, and numerous manufacturers of machine tools, 
instrumentation systems, telecommunications devices and robotic 
systems.

Simulinux/RT is currently shipping and can be purchased from 
Quanser's web site at http://www.simulinux.com.

FSMLabs can be contacted via their web sites: http://www.fsmlabs.com 
and http://www.rtlinux.com. Business inquiries should be directed to 
business@fsmlabs.com.


About FSMLabs, Inc.

FSMLabs Inc. is a privately held corporation specializing in realtime 
and embedded operating system development, founded by the creators of 
RTLinux. FSMLabs has offices in New Mexico and Florida in the USA, in 
Vienna, Austria, and in St. Petersburg, Russia.

About Quanser

Quanser Consulting Inc. is a privately owned corporation specializing 
in the design and manufacture of advanced systems for realtime 
control design and implementation. Quanser is headquartered in 
Markham, Ontario, Canada and is supported by worldwide representation 
and distribution channels.

RTLinux is a trademark of FSMLabs Inc., used under license from the 
Linux Mark Foundation. Linux is a registered trademark of Linus 
Torvalds. All other trademarks are property of their holders.

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Bill Krauss
Finite State Machine Labs: The RTLinux Company.
www.fsmlabs.com  www.rtlinux.com