Initial minimal notice about CAN bus support added.

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@@ -41,6 +41,10 @@ acquired and visualized with Simulink scopes.
 <h2 id="news">Recent News</h2>
 
 <ul>
+<li>
+  We will present the a paper <a href="https://www.osadl.org/?id=2018">Usable Simulink Embedded Coder Target for Linux</a>
+  and RPi motor control demonstartion at <a href="https://www.osadl.org/RTLWS-2014.rtlws-2014.0.html">16th Real Time Linux Workshop</a>
+  taking place on 12 and 13 October 2014 in Dusseldorf Germany.</li>
 <li>
   We will present the ert_linux project
   at <a href="http://www.amper.cz/en/online-catalog/list-of-exhibitors.html/e9595_0-fakulta-elektrotechnicka-cvut-v-praze">Amper
@@ -52,7 +56,7 @@ developers and researchers at the OSADL booth (hall 5 booth 276).
 </li>
 </ul>
 
-<h2 id="linuxnative">Native Linux Real-Time and I/O Cards Support</h2>
+<h2 id="linuxnative">Native Linux Real-Time and I/O Cards and Devices Support</h2>
 
 <p>Current version of the Linux ERT target is optimized to use the
 proper Linux kernel timing mechanism with bounded maximal latencies.
@@ -70,14 +74,20 @@ for this driver can be found
 on <a href="http://rtime.felk.cvut.cz/hw/index.php/Humusoft_MF6xx">DCE
 HW Wiki page</a>.</p>
 
-<h2 id="platformselect">RT-Capable Platform and Kernel</h2>
+<p>
+The basic blocks for <a href="can_bus/index.html">CAN messges sending and receiption
+under Linux are implemented.
+</p>
 
+<h2 id="platformselect">RT-Capable Platform and Kernel</h2>
+<p>
 Standard distribution Linux kernel does not guarantee bounded latencies for many operations.
 The use of <a href="http://rt.wiki.kernel.org/">real-time variant</a> of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux">Linux</a>
 kernel is required to make system durable. This kernel variants minimizes regions
 where switch to the highest priority (i.e. Linux ERT generated) task is blocked by
 kernel when servicing system calls for other tasks.
-
+</p>
+<p>
 Selection of the right version of the kernel is not enough for non-disruptive
 operation. Computer system hardware selection is critical as well. The system
 has to provide enough computational power for compiled in blocks data evaluation
@@ -89,13 +99,14 @@ latencies in x86 based systems is <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System_M
 processing. The SMI enable and processing is under BIOS and motherboard vendor control
 and this problem cannot be resolved by operating system. This means that proper
 hardware selection is critical.
-
+</p>
+<p>
 A long period evaluation data of different combinations of Linux kernel version
-runing on many CPU architectures and boards from many vendors is (see <a href="http://www.osadl.org/">OSADL</a>
-<a href="http://www.osadl.org/Quality-assurance-at-the-OSADL-QA-Farm.osadl-services-qa.0.html">Quality Assurance Farm</a>)
-
+runing on many CPU architectures and boards from many vendors is <a href="http://www.osadl.org/">OSADL</a>
+<a href="http://www.osadl.org/Quality-assurance-at-the-OSADL-QA-Farm.osadl-services-qa.0.html">Quality Assurance Farm</a>.
 According to these track records carefully selected x86 or embedded GNU/Linux system can run
 real-time tasks with sampling frequencies up to 20&nbsp;kHz with no losing sample per months.
+</p>
 
 <h2 id="download">Source Code and Download</h2>
 
@@ -141,6 +152,28 @@ control applications with CANopen communication.</p>
 
 <p>Lukáš Hamáček, “<b>RTW target for Linux with CANopen support</b>”, Master Thesis, Prague 2009. (<a href="dp_2009_hamacek_lukas.pdf">Pdf</a>)</p>
 
+<h2 id="applications">Systems Controlled Linux Target for Embedded Coder</h2>
+
+Some more information about concrete examples of controlled systems/setups:
+
+<dl>
+  <dt><b>Moving Slide</b> parallel kinematic/robot control</dt>
+    <dd>The Linux ERT target is used at Adaptive Systems Department (Academy of Sciences
+      of Czech Republic, UTIA institute) to realize control system for parallel kinematics
+      control research projects. See <a href="moving-slide/index.html">respective page for more
+      information about project</a>.
+    </dd>
+  <dt><b>Raspberry Pi</b> minimal components DC motor servo control</dt>
+    <dd><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raspberry_Pi">Raspberry Pi</a> is low cost
+      hardware which does not implement any usual motor control peripherals in hardware.
+      Yet fully preemptive variant of Linux kernel latencies are so low that fast signals
+      processing in software allows to implement precise DC motor feedback control
+      for incremental encoder inputs changing up to 15&nbsp;kHz.
+      See <a href="rpi-motor-control/index.html"> respective page for more information
+      about project</a>.
+    </dd>
+</ul>
+
 <h2 id="contributors">Project Contributors</h2>
 
 <dl>