Devices for Internet of Things (IoT) have a connection to the cloud, and one of the targets is often running on Amazon Web Services (AWS). I recently needed to use it when I was evaluating Cirrus ...

The internet of things is here to stay, and Amazon Web Services rolled out several extensions to its IoT product strategy this week at AWS re:Invent to help its customers connect all the things. AWS ...

FreeRTOS is a scalable real time kernel designed specifically for use in small embedded systems. According to Richard Barry, chief technical officer of Real Time Engineers and FreeRTOS' creator, it's ...

FreeRTOS, the open-source operating system that powers most of the small microprocessors and microcontrollers in smart homes and critical infrastructure systems has 13 vulnerabilities, a third of them ...

From time to time, I come across some very interesting blog posts on our sister sites that I think are relevant to the readers here at ElectroSchematics. This time I found a wonderful post from Jacob ...

FreeRTOS is a popular (6K to 7K downloads per month) open source mini real-time kernel designed for use on microcontrollers. Nineteen architectures are supported in total—this download includes only ...

Version 7.0 of the open-source real-time operating system FreeRTOS has been released, adding a software timer, a port to the MSP430X microcontroller, and two additional ‘demos’ – more of which later.

If you're having trouble getting Linux to run on that 8-bit processor with 32KB of memory don't despair, there are open-source alternatives. FreeRTOS is an open source real time kernel that has been ...