Mark Ireton, Ph.D., and Michael Kardonik, Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. Semiconductor companies continue to shrink the minimum feature size of their processors, pack an exponentially increasing number ...

Purchase an off-the-shelf RTOS Write your own RTOS Use a software synthesis tool to automatically generate an RTOS. If you purchase one, what is available and what are the tradeoffs? If you write your ...

The quest for compatibility and portability is a perpetual challenge in embedded systems. While many systems today have adopted real-time operating systems (RTOS), each is unique and different enough ...

If operating systems weren’t so useful, we would not be running them on every single of our desktop systems. In the same vein, embedded operating systems provide similar functionality as these desktop ...

Electronic products that use a microcontroller have become so complex today that they commonly use a real-time operating system (RTOS). An RTOS can manage low-level resources and time, improving the ...

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 ...

How to verify RTOS best practices in runtime. How visual trace diagnostics can be used to analyze the software design and detect deviations from best practices. What is priority inheritance? Using a ...

To find the RTOS with the best real-time performance, you've got to do an apples-to-apples comparison. Developers are making embedded systems applications more complex, not only because they can, but ...

Real-Time Operating Systems (RTOS) are increasingly being used in safety-critical applications such as medical technology, the automotive industry, and aerospace. This raises the growing question of ...

This article examines different options for putting a real-time operating system (RTOS) on a system on a chip (SoC). There are basically three options: Purchase an off-the-shelf RTOS Write your own ...