Embedded

Programming embedded systems: RTOS – efficient blocking

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, ...
Embedded

Programming embedded systems: RTOS – automating the context switch

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, ...
Design News

5 Tips for Mastering Zephyr RTOS

Zephyr is a scalable, real-time operating system (RTOS) for microcontroller-based embedded systems. It’s an open-source project hosted by the Linux Foundation, backed by a broad ecosystem of silicon ...
Electronic Design

Embedded: RTOS Runs On Blackfin DSP

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 ...
EDN

Working with Windows Embedded Compact RTOS

Windows Embedded Compact 2013 differentiates itself from other operating systems by providing a real-time, small-footprint operating system that can be customized to meet the targeted requirements of ...
Electronic Design

Tackling Security and Reliability in the Zephyr RTOS

Get an introduction to the multithreaded open-source Zephyr RTOS, which is designed with safety and security in mind. How trace diagnostics tools help to quickly and easily identify software behavior ...
EDN

Using a RTOS in multicore-based MCU designs

Recently introduced multicore-based MCUs have raised the complexity level of embedded system designs. The use of an RTOS, however, provides a framework for multicore that can dramatically reduce time ...

Wind River Continues Long-Standing #1 Ranking in Edge Operating System Platforms

Wind River, a global leader in delivering software for the intelligent edge, today announced it has once again topped the ...
Business Wire

PX5 RTOS Simplifies Development of 64-bit Hard Real-Time Applications with Support for IAR Embedded Workbench for Arm

SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--PX5, a global leader in high-performance real-time operating systems and middleware, today announced hard real-time Asymmetric Multiprocessing (AMP) and Symmetric ...
Business Wire

Renesas Extends Support for Microsoft Azure RTOS Across 32-bit MCU Families With Simple Licensing for Secure Embedded IoT Development

TOKYO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Renesas Electronics Corporation (TSE:6723), a premier supplier of advanced semiconductor solutions, today announced that customers designing with all mainstream Renesas 32-bit ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Embedded Processor Requirements And OS Choice

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 ...