Performance of a real-time etherCAT master under linux

IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 679-687

  Cereia, Marco ^a   Bertolotti, Ivan Cibrario ^a   Scanzio, Stefano ^a  

^a Istituto Di Elettronica E Di Ingegneria Dell'informazione E Delle Telecomunicazioni Turin   (Italy)

Author keywords

Industrial control systems; open source operating systems; real time and embedded systems

Indexed keywords

ADVERSE EFFECT; BEST-EFFORT; INDUSTRIAL CONTROL SYSTEMS; LONG-TERM MEASUREMENTS; NETWORKED CONTROL SYSTEMS; OPEN-SOURCE; PERFORMANCE LEVEL; REAL TIME CHARACTERISTICS; REAL-TIME AND EMBEDDED SYSTEMS; REAL-TIME APPLICATION; REAL-TIME EXTENSION; REAL-WORLD APPLICATION;

COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS; CONTROL SYSTEMS; EMBEDDED SYSTEMS;

REAL TIME SYSTEMS;

EID: 81255144115     PISSN: 15513203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TII.2011.2166777     Document Type: Article

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