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Well, SpaceX claims to be running their flight software on Linux so it is critical to their missions at least :)
by kristoffer 10y ago
Well, SpaceX claims to be running their flight software on Linux so it is critical to their missions at least :)
- 4ad 10y agoSpaceX uses VxWorks for their hard real-time requirements: http://blogs.windriver.com/vxworks/2010/12/vxworks-helping-commercial-spaceflight-become-a-reality.html http://blogs.windriver.com/vxworks/2010/12/vxworks-helping-c... They use Linux for non-hard-real-time stuff. Their microcontrollers also do not use Linux. Coincidentally, Tesla uses QNX.
- kristoffer 10y agoYes for their microcontrollers they use VxWorks. But Linux is still used for the flight software (i.e. mission control).
- 4ad 10y agoVxWorks does not run on microcontrollers.
- kristoffer 10y agoDon't know your definition of microcontroller but VxWorks runs on e.g. Cortex-M3/4, MIPS, 68K, SH, SparcV8, PowerPC thus including some devices I could microcontrollers. But there is no clear cut definition of microcontroller, microprocessor, SoC, whatnot.