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 ...

Green Hills Software today announced that its INTEGRITY ® -178 tuMP™ real-time operating system (RTOS) is part of Northrop Grumman’s delivery of the first production unit of its LN-351 Embedded Global ...

Senior Editor The simplest embedded systems center on microcontrollers running a single control loop. The loop may poll inputs or be interrupt driven, but as long as no other task ever requires ...

San Diego, Calif. –Enea Embedded Technology, formerly OSE Systems, says its OSEck real-time kernel and OSE Illuminator development tools are now available for LSI Logic's ZSP Digital Signal Processor ...

Over the course of the past decade, the evolution of advanced low-energy microcontrollers has raised three questions which this paper outlines and addresses. The first question is: Can a 32-bit ...

Members can download this article in PDF format. The design, integration, and deployment of embedded-system software presents many challenges related to the operating system, development environment, ...

The RabbitSys kernel is available preloaded on the RCM3365 RabbitSys core module and lets embedded-systems designers update, monitor, configure, detect, diagnose, and debug embedded systems from ...

Wind River Systems, the leading provider of a realtime embedded operating system known as VxWorks, for example, unveiled this week its first reselling agreement with semiconductor distributor the ...

ThreadX from Express Logic now works with the Xilinx Embedded Development Kit 6.1i (EDK) and supports the Xilinx 32-bit MicroBlaze soft processor. The MicroBlaze processor uses a Harvard-style RISC ...

Advances in embedded systems technology make it possible for systems integrators to bring new power in ever-smaller profiles to defense systems and deliver increasingly powerful applications. But ...

Any electronic system that uses a computer chip but is not a general-purpose desktop or laptop computer, tablet or smartphone. Embedded systems use microcontrollers (MCUs), microprocessors (MPUs) or ...

The hype that spawned several Linux start-ups has vanished, but MontaVista Software still has faith that Linux is the foundation for success. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and ...