The greatest challenge facing embedded system developers is debugging software. Embedded systems have become highly complex, running real-time operating systems, connectivity stacks, USB, and security ...

A newly released update to Linux delivers kernel pre-emption, improved scheduling, and a Posix (Portable Operating System Interface for Unix) for enhanced real-time performance. Depending on the ...

The proliferation of multicore processors has done more than provide a boost in processing power to server applications. Multicore chips also pose the opportunity to revolutionize how embedded systems ...

BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Embedded Systems Conference--Express Logic, Inc., the worldwide leader in royalty-free real-time operating systems (RTOS), today announced the publication of the third edition ...

As more complex devices with higher levels of integration are inserted into real-time systems, traditional testing methods are becoming obsolete. The most difficult obstacle to thorough testing of ...

Real-time systems and embedded computing have become foundational to modern engineering, underpinning applications from industrial automation and automotive control to aerospace and telecommunications ...

In the last lesson, you encountered the concept of a Real-Time Operating System (RTOS), and you worked out a manual procedure of switching the context from one thread to another. In this lesson, ...

Dynamic memory allocators for real-time embedded systems need to fulfill three fundamental requirements: bounded worst-case execution time, fast average execution time, and minimal fragmentation.

The demands of multimedia processing are diverse and ever-increasing. Modern consumers expect nothing less than immediate and high-quality audio and video experiences. Everyone wants their smart ...

Many real-time systems need a database. However, choosing one can be challenging depending on performance requirements. Why external consistency is so important for a hard real-time database.