Real-time is an often misunderstood and misapplied property of operating systems. One definition of the term can be found in the FAQ for the comp.real-time newsgroup: “A real-time system is one in ...

An RTOS is a specialized operating system designed to handle time-critical tasks with precision and reliability. Unlike general-purpose operating systems like Windows or macOS, an RTOS is built to ...

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 ...

PHOENIX – DDC-I Inc. in Phoenix is introducing Future Airborne Capability Environment (FACE) 3.0 software conformance for the company's Deos safety-critical DO-178 real-time operating system (RTOS) ...

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 ...

Hard real-time Linux has been around for ages, or it may never appear. It all depends on who you talk to. It also depends on your requirements. A two-second interrupt latency may be acceptable for ...

For each embedded product, software developers need to consider whether they need an operating system; and if so, what type of an OS. Operating systems vary considerably, from real-time operating ...

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, ...

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 ...

This fifth lesson on RTOS finally addresses the real-time aspect of the “Real-Time Operating System” name. Specifically, in the video lesson 26, you add a preemptive, priority-based scheduler to the ...