D Programming/RTAI

Why use RTAI for real-time applications?

Real-time application need

• efficient executing code
• deterministic behaviour

Actually development for real-time applications is mainly made in embedded systems in the language C.

More and more is done in C++ and on PC platforms. With D there is an alternative to C++. But there are non-deterministic features in D (like in C++ also)

• dynamic memory allocation
• dynamic casts
• garbage collection
• exception handling

In a real-time environment not all has to be deterministic. So it is in the hand of the developer not to use these features in the real-time task.

• Installing
• RTAI Bindings
• LXRT
• Accessing PCI hardware
• User Space Interrupts
• Examples