Devices for Internet of Things (IoT) have a connection to the cloud, and one of the targets is often running on Amazon Web Services (AWS). I recently needed to use it when I was evaluating Cirrus ...
Linux has taken the embedded marketplace by storm. According to industry analysts, one-third to one-half of new embedded 32- and 64-bit designs employ Linux. Embedded Linux already dominates multiple ...
Operating systems can be a major source of stress for embedded design engineers. Factors such as size, cost and support all contribute to make the development process more complex. The process can ...
Wind River, a global leader in delivering software for the intelligent edge, today announced it has once again topped the ...
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, ...
From time to time, I come across some very interesting blog posts on our sister sites that I think are relevant to the readers here at ElectroSchematics. This time I found a wonderful post from Jacob ...
In this fourth lesson in the Real-Time Operating System (RTOS) series, you’ll see how to replace the horribly inefficient polling delay with efficient thread blocking. Specifically, in this lesson 25, ...
The open-source eCos (Embedded Configurable Operating System) is ideal for deeply embedded systems in which memory resources and real-time execution constraints are top design issues. The system ...
The Nucleus real-time operating system (RTOS) now targets Analog Devices' dual-core ADSP-BF561 Blackfin DSP. The POSIX-compatible RTOS is supported by the company's Nucleus EDGE (Embedded Developers ...