Embedded system developers have a wide range of operating systems available to them today. Of course, the most straightforward operating system is to have no operating system! However, many systems ...

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 ...

Sponsored by Texas Instruments: Embedded software development is a multidimensional effort that you can address by leveraging open-source compiler tools and operating systems. The design, integration, ...

This file type includes high-resolution graphics and schematics when applicable. Greg Rose, Vice President of Product Management and Marketing, DDC-I Inc. The FACE standards effort seeks to facilitate ...

When I first started writing embedded software, the environments that I found to be the most efficient and easiest to use were only available on Microsoft Windows. In fact, it wasn’t uncommon for ...

Over the past decade, new microprocessor technologies have literally changed the face of business and consumer computing. Your tried-and-true automation technologies are now going through a similarly ...

The Linux operating system is set to become the de facto standard for "embedded" devices like robotics, information appliances and automobile information systems, but fragmentation could prove a ...

One of the last things the Linux kernel does during system boot is mount the root filesystem. The Linux kernel dictates no filesystem structure, but user space applications expect to find files with ...

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 ...

PARK RIDGE, Ill. — Stepping up its efforts in embedded computing, Microsoft Corp. announced the beta release of its Whistler Embedded operating system this week. The company hopes this modular or ...