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 ...

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 ...

U.S. grid operators could fast-track their review of power plants in their interconnection queues if the plants will improve grid reliability under a bill introduced Wednesday by a House Republican.

Real Time Engineers Ltd. has released V7.4.0 of its FreeRTOS. The new verision adds queue set functionality and enhanced support for tickless low power operation. Queue sets enable an RTOS task to ...

The problem with desynchronizing your code by moving parts of it into different tasks is that many of the resources your software wants to use—certain hardware, data structures in memory, files—can’t ...

Issues with proprietary RTOS APIs. How does the POSIX pthread API stack up against proprietary APIs? Thread creation in POSIX. However, each proprietary API impedes embedded development by requiring ...