Real-Time Workshop

Targeting Tornado for Real-Time Applications

Tornado, a target supported by Real-Time Workshop, describes an integrated set of tools for creating real-time applications to run under theVxWorks operating system, which has many Unix-like features and runs on a variety of host systems and target processors. This chapter contains the following topics:

The Tornado Environment	Overview of the Tornado (VxWorks) Real-Time Target and the VxWorks Support library
Run-Time Architecture Overview	Singletasking and multitasking architecture and host/target communications
Implementation Overview	Design, implementation, and execution of a VxWorks- based real-time program using Real-Time Workshop

Limitations The Tornado Environment