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 ...

In this course, students will design and build a microprocessor-based embedded system project managing real-time constraints while analyzing the system in-order to meet them. Students are expected to ...

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 ...

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 ...

Semiconductor development is currently in one of its periodic crises, with many factors combining to require dramatically new technologies and methodologies. Chips continue to grow ever larger and ...

The IRS is coming! In fact, it is already here and unfortunately, embedded system engineers have been caught off-guard and snoozing. As you might have guessed, I’m not talking about the internal ...

Estimates are that software development can account for as much as half the total development time on embedded system projects. Moreover, software techniques can also dramatically impact the ...

It might surprise you that only about 44% of embedded systems projects are delivered on time. Despite technological advancements and project management techniques, that percentage has changed very ...

Embedded computers can take the form of very small circuit boards that fit within a device, like a personal digital assistant or DIN rail-mount computer. They can also be as large as a single-board ...

Operations and supply chain roles increasingly demand graduates who can work inside messy systems. New hires are expected to analyze unstable processes, interpret incomplete data, and engage frontline ...