Readings in Multimedia Computing and Networking

An Overview of the Rialto Real-Time Architecture

Michael B. Jones, Joseph S. Barrera, III, Alessandro Forin, Paul J. Leach, Daniela Rou^* and Marcel-Câtâlin Rosu^*,     Microsoft Research, Microsoft Corporation, One Microsoft Way, Building 9s/1, Redmond, WA 98052

Abstract

The goal of the Rialto project at Microsoft Research is to build a system architecture supporting coexisting independent real-time (and non-real-time) programs. Unlike traditional embedded-systems real-time environments, where timing and resource analysis among competing tasks can be done off-line, it is our goal to allow multiple independently authored real-time applications ...