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From: William Dale <me@81832.com>
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Subject: Re: Real Time Machine Vision
Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2002 09:22:44 -0700
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Try http://marte.unican.es/ for the RT Kernel.  Good Ada (free) support
which I think might be more difficult with QNX RTOS

Carlos Luque Dengra wrote:
> 
> Hi u all.
> I just write these few lines to know about your experiences/oppinions about
> computer vision/realtime/hardwaere developement.
> I plan to build a system using off-the-shelf hardware, and gnu/free/...
> software. Knowing that is not a comemrcial app.,
> I think that I could use:
> 
> -cheap SBC x86, including USB and Ethernet
> - QNX RTOS
> - cheap USB Camera
> - parallel port as input/output device
> - ADA as the development language.
> 
> I know that Multimedia camera are not best suited for machine vision apps.
> I know that maybe I will net to talk to a DSP.
> I know that so far there's no ADA compiler for QNX (Maybe in the future).
> Maybe the only way way will be C (some ASM too).
> The RTOS is necessary as far as deadlines will be strict and the system has
> to be deterministic.
> 
> Thankx in advance.
> 
> Carlos L.