From: nora@wrs.com
Newsgroups: comp.os.vxworks
Subject: users group meeting
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 92 15:39:43 PDT
Organization: Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, Berkeley CA
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Originator: daemon@vxw.ee.lbl.gov

VxWorks Users:
Here is a follow-up to Todd Bracketts email:
There is still time to sign up for the VxWorks Users Group Meeting,
September 18, 1992 at the Sheraton Hotel and Towers in Boston, MA.  If you
register in advance you will receive $10 off the $50 fee.  Email
nora@wrs.com or call Nora Patterson at 1-800-545-WIND, to sign up by Friday
Sept. 11.   
								
In addition to David Wilner, Tony Barbagallo, of WRS, and Mike Teimann of
Cygnus Support, we will have presentations given by:

Mike Anderson, SPARTA, Inc.
SPARTA will be discussing our latest release of the ARTSE(Tm) process
distribution, control and communications executive.  ARTSE(Tm) presents to
the applications programmer a platform-independent communications layer
that supports Sun 3, Sun 4, Silicon Graphics and DECStation as well as
VxWorks-based hosts.  This communications layer is based on a
SPARTA-developed reliable datagram facility that can sustain > 4MBPs
transfer rates between two SPARCStation 1+-class machines over Ethernet. 
Process allocation and message routing is handled via an iconic
point-and-shoot style user interface with messages being able to be
delivered to multiple destinations without multiple application-level write
calls ala multicast.  SPARTA will be demonstrating ARTSE(Tm) using our
robot demo that incorporates 2 VxWorks CPUs, a SPARCStation and our
home-brew robot (Z80-based controlled from VxWorks).
								

Stan Schneider, Real-Time Innovations, Inc.
Stan Schneider from Real-Time Innovations, Inc. will give a short
presentation
on RTI's StethoScope product, including a live demonstration.
        StethoScope is a graphical monitoring and data collection utility
designed expressly to work with VxWorks.  It lets programmers examine and
analyze  real-time applications while they're running.  StethoScope can
monitor, graph, store, and analyze any variable or memory location in your
system.  It provides direct visibility of many things that no other tool
can show.
        StethoScope includes the ScopeProfile dynamic execution profiler
for VxWorks.  ScopeProfile analyzes the execution flow of a real-time
program on a procedure-by-procedure basis.  It shows you exactly how your
VxWorks program is utilizing the CPU.
								

Mike Trest, VisiCom Laboratories
VisiCom's primary business is a line of emulators and communications
controllers for military applications.  VisiCom is also a VxWorks reseller
who provides services to builders of custom embedded hardware systems.
        Custom BSP's and device drivers for VME and NON-VME environments is
VisiCom's forte.   In addition to hardware and system design activities,
VisiCom's staff of over 130 includes over 40 software professionals who
work with VxWorks/VADSworks applications, BSPs, and drivers on a daily
basis.
        Mike Trest will be presenting VisiCom's X-Windows product
VX-Windows (tm). VX-Windows brings high speed X-Server capabilities to your
real-time designs. VX-Windows incorporates the standard MIT X libraries and
a complete  X-Server which supports several hardware boards.  VX-Motif is
also available. 
        Users group attendees will see demonstration clients written with
windX, VX-Windows, VX-Motif all sharing a common display.  A survey of
actual fielded applications will be reviewed.  Mike will be available to
answer your one-on-one questions.

								
Garth Gullekson, Bell-Northern Research
Garth Gullekson, from Bell-Northern Research, will be giving an overview of
the concepts of ObjecTime.  ObjecTime is a new object-oriented CASE tool,
targeted for real-time systems.  It supports the ROOM methodology, which
allows the creation of executable analysis or design models. It is based
primarily on communicating hierarchically decomposed finite-state machines
with well defined message-based protocols between them.  Inheritance can be
applied to architectures and high-level designs, not just C++ code
segments.  Future plans for the product include the  ability to take
detailed ObjecTime designs and run them unaltered on VxWorks-based product
platforms

								
Lloyd Bishop, Tadpole Technology
Tadpole Technology will discuss its philosophy to custom board design and
how that has enabled Tadpole's customers to meet technology and
time-to-market pressures.  We will also discuss how that approach has
resulted in an extensive range of single board computers available to the
general market.  Soon to be announced product will also be discussed.

								
Sven Spoerri, Atlantic Aerospace Electronics Corp.
Ultranet is a high performance network consisting of hardware and software
that will support data transfer rates between host computers of up to 1
Gigabit/second.  Atlantic Aerospace Electronics Corp. has ported the
software driver for Ultra's VME host adapter so that applications running
under the VxWorks real-time operating system kernel can transfer data over
an Ultra network using standard TCP/IP network protocols.  Data transfer
rates of up to 12 Mbytes/sec have been achieved between VME systems with
68030 single board computers running VxWorks communicating over an Ultra
network.  The talk will provide an overview of the hardware and software,
performance results and suggest potential applications.


See you there.