Xiaofan Chen wrote:

> On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 7:35 AM, Xiaofan Chen <xiaofanc@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 11:03 PM, Walter Banks <walter@bytecraft.com> wrote:
> >> I have done a lot of work in tools support for automotive engine
> >> controllers. Most of them use a multiprocessor based event
> >> system consisting of a powerPC sized host CPU and two
> >> I/O event driven processors. The operation is surprisingly similar to
> >> ISO/IEC 61499. There is no RTOS in the host CPU.
>
> Just read this one.
> http://groups.google.com/group/fbdk/browse_thread/thread/375eff1ec8d80613
>
> It seems the author or Muvium (JVM for PIC18) are trying
> to do IEC61499 with PIC18 (albeit a bigger one).
>
> Xiaofan
> --

Thanks for the link. There is a lot of interest in 61499 right now
because it is one of the few standards that deals with parallel
real time issues. There may be better solutions found but
this is a good starting point.

Walter Banks

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