After introducing interrupts and the foreground/background architecture, I am finally ready to tackle the concept of a Real-Time Operating System (RTOS). In this first lesson on RTOS (commonly ...

When do you need to use a real-time operating system (RTOS) for an embedded project? What does it bring to the table, and what are the costs? Fortunately there are strict technical definitions, which ...

It’s easy to forget that embedded Linux can’t do everything for all embedded developers. While it is suitable for some applications with many megabytes of memory and powerful processors, there are a ...

A real-time system must respect time constraints to ensure that its execution makes functional sense. It must be deterministic, ensuring the execution of system processes a priori. After analyzing the ...

Head over to our on-demand library to view sessions from VB Transform 2023. Register Here Embedded and internet of things (IoT) devices are a growing category of computing, and with that growth has ...

Real-time systems on multicore architectures aim to ensure that critical tasks meet stringent timing constraints in the presence of shared hardware resources and concurrent execution. As application ...

In today’s world of high-speed A/D converters operating in the gigahertz range, real-time signal recording has become a challenging task that requires specialized hardware and intelligent application ...

Embedded-Linux company says it's created technology that lets people slam the brakes on Linux in a computing emergency. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about processors, ...

Although Linux runs almost every supercomputer, most of the web, the majority of smart phones, and a few writers’ ancient Macbooks, there’s one major weak point in the Linux world that will almost ...