A configurable adjunct for real time systems (CARTS)

Abstract

CARTS is a set of system services targeted to real time distributed systems and spanning a variety of architectures. CARTS was designed to support rapid application code generation through generic user interfaces, to facilitate incremental system integration and reconfiguration via file-based data, and to provide tailored functionality appropriate to each project utilizing it. The CARTS postal system controls intertask communication within and between processors using optimal transfer methods such as shared memory, backplane I/O, or network I/O. The CARTS clock services supply high resolution time of day and mission clocks synchronized system wide at initialization and maintained through all levels of interface loading and across processor restarts.