• Journal of the Semiconductor & Display Technology
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• v.21 no.3
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• pp.26-32
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• 2022

EtherCAT is an Ethernet-based fieldbus system standardized in IEC 61158 and SEMI, and widely used in the fields of factory automation, semiconductor equipment and robotics. In this paper, an EtherCAT master is implemented on an embedded board with Arm based 64-bit quad-core processor and its jitter performance is evaluated at the output of the network interface to include all the effects of the entire system in the results. For the EtherCAT master system, an open source EtherCAT master stack, Simple Open EtherCAT Master (SOEM), is installed on PREEMPT_RT patched Linux operating system for real-time operation. The results show that the jitter performance is comparable to that of Xenomai-based master and the EtherCAT master with two master instances has similar jitter performance to the EtherCAT master with one master instance.

• IEMEK Journal of Embedded Systems and Applications
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• v.12 no.1
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• pp.1-10
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• 2017

Recently, with the ever-increasing complexity of industrial robot systems, it has been greatly attention to adopt a multi-core based motion controller with high cost-performance ratio. In this paper, we propose a software architecture that aims to utilize the computing power of multi-core processors. The key concept of our architecture is to use shared memory for the interplay between threads running on separate processor cores. And then, we have integrated our proposed architecture with an industrial standard compliant IDE for automatic code generation of motion runtime. For the performance evaluation, we constructed a test-bed consisting of a motion controller with Preempt-RT Linux based dual-core industrial PC and a 3-axis industrial robot platform. The experimental results show that the actuation time difference between axes is 10 ns in average and bounded up to 689 ns under $1000{\mu}s$ control period, which can come up with real-time performance for industrial robot.

• International journal of advanced smart convergence
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• v.11 no.1
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• pp.28-35
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• 2022

This paper presents a performance evaluation of real-time Linux for industrial real-time platforms. On industrial platforms, multicore processors are popular due to their work distribution efficiency and cost-effectiveness. Multicore processors, however, are not designed for applications with real-time constraints, and their performance capabilities depend on their core configurations. In order to assess the feasibility of a multicore processor for real-time applications, we conduct a performance evaluation of a general processor and a low-power processor to provide an experimental environment of real-time Linux on both Xenomai and RT-preempt considering the multicore configuration. The real-time performance is evaluated through scheduling latency and in an environment with loads on the CPU, memory, and network to consider an actual situation. The results show a difference between a low-power and a general-purpose processor, but from developer's point of view, it shows that the low-power processor is a proper solution to accommodate low power situations.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2011.06b
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• pp.37-40
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• 2011

리눅스 운영체제는 처리율(throughput)을 보장하는 것을 우선으로 하고 있으며, 태스크들의 응답시간을 보장하지는 않기 때문에 실시간 처리가 필요한 경우에는 적용하기 어렵다. 이러한 문제를 해결하기 위해 RT 패치는 선점형 커널, 인터럽트 쓰레드화, 뮤텍스의 도입 등을 통해 리눅스의 실시간 처리를 지원한다. 그러나 RT 패치는 우선순위 상속만을 지원하기 때문에, 뮤텍스의 스핀락 대체로 인한 데드락 문제를 야기할 수 있다. 본 논문에서는 이를 해결하기 위하여 PCP(Priority Ceiling Protocol)의 변형인 ICPP(Immediate Ceiling Priority Protocol)을 RT 패치에 통합되도록 구현하고, 그 성능을 분석한다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2007.11a
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• pp.576-578
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• 2007

본 논문에서는 Ingo Molnar 의 realtime-preempt 패치가 적용된 리눅스를 활용한 실시간 시스템에서 다른 프로세스와 동시에 수행하지 않고도 다른 프로세스에 의한 실시간 프로세스의 최악 응답시간의 변화를 예측할 수 있도록 최악 응답 시간에 영향을 주는 커널 모드에서 선점 금지 시간을 프로세스 별로 분석을 하기 위한 도구를 커널 모듈로 구현하여 실시간 프로세스의 최악 응답 시간을 예측할 수 있음을 보였다.

• International Journal of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.13 no.1
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• pp.134-142
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• 2021

This paper proposes a probabilistic method in analyzing timing measurements to determine the periodicity of real-time tasks. The proposed method fills a gap in existing techniques, which either concentrate on the estimation of worst-case execution times, or do not consider the stochastic behavior of the real-time scheduler. Our method is based on the Z-test statistical analysis which calculates the probability of the measured period to fall within a user-defined standard deviation limit. The distribution of the measured period should satisfy two conditions: its center (statistical mean) should be equal to the scheduled period of the real-time task, and that it should be symmetrical with most of the samples focused on the center. To ensure that these requirements are met, a data adjustment process, which omits any outliers in the expense of accuracy, is presented. Then, the Z-score of the distribution according to the user-defined deviation limit provides a probability which determines the periodicity of the real-time task. Experiments are conducted to analyze the timing measurements of real-time tasks based on real-time Linux extensions of Xenomai and RT-Preempt. The results indicate that the proposed method is able to provide easier interpretation of the periodicity of real-time tasks which are valuable especially in comparing the performance of various real-time systems.