..). The BBDEV framework currently only supports Forward Error Correction (FEC) functionality. More about this below. Combined, the solutions to Challenge 1 and Challenge 2 are sufficient to implement a hardware-abstracted, high-performance framework that removes the overhead associated with Linux, even though it forces the programmer to be aware of the real time aspects of his/her application and as such disallows the programmer to use specific os services. This is a bit of a paradox, but gives the application much needed platform portability, which is a key requirement. Challenge 3: Application Programming to Real-Time requirements A real-time environment poses several restrictions on the programmer. Typical examples include requirement for static memory management-dynamic data structures and associated memory management is (typically) unbound/unpredictable with regards to latency. requirement for time management. Remove unbounded loops and other algorithms that have a undefined maximum execution time. When needed, implement 'escape' options to terminate processing early. requirement for removal of recursive algorithms for similar reasons as in the previous point. Buffer and memory management Real time applications such as MAC (Medium Access Control)/RLC (Radio Link Control)/ PDCP (Packet Data Convergence Protocol) stacks typically implement a private buffer man- agement scheme that instead of doing standard malloc() based memory allocations on an 192 Open Radio Access Network (O-RAN) Systems Architecture and Design ad-hoc basis, rely on a single large and physically contiguous memory allocation (100 S of Mbytes in size, potentially). There are multiple benefits to this type of memory management, including: Determinism-potentially at the cost of flexibility, such memory management scheme is completely flexible in supporting a known cycle "cost" for buffer allocation and release, and no user- to kernel-space switches that consume physical time. Ease of memory address translation. Conversion from virtual to physi