Today, embedded systems are so common that you’d have a hard time looking in any direction without seeing a device which contains one – if you know where to look. Lately, a movement toward embedded as ...

The operating system has long played a critical role in embedded systems. A prime historical purpose of the operating system is to simplify the life of electronic product developers, freeing them to ...

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 ...

Because the operating system controls the resources (e.g., memory, CPU) of the embedded system, it has the power to prevent unauthorized use of these resources. Conversely, if the operating system ...

Wind River has announced the availability of virtualization for embedded systems. This allows operating systems to be mixed on a multicore chip. Gordon Haff Gordon Haff is Red Hat's cloud evangelist ...

My two years of personal experience at Lynx that (among other things) focusses on certifying code for deployment on big mission-critical programs, tells me that today’s vendors of proprietary RTOS / ...

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 ...

Green Hills Software, Inc. unveiled a minuscule embedded operating system with a ROM footprint as small as 1,600 bytes. Called mu-velOSity, the new RTOS offers a RAM footprint, as small as 1,600 bytes ...

Microsoft just delivered Windows 8.1 (Fig. 1). Windows Embedded 8.1 has also been released. It has been in beta for ages and the RTM (release to manufacturing) version has been available as well so ...