Texas Instruments has announced TI-RTOS, a complete RTOS (real-time operating system) targeting its entire MCU portfolio. Based on a preemptive multithreading kernel, the new RTOS and associated ...

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 ...

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Selecting a plural form for the acronym RTOS is hard; there's no one right way to spell it. Some possibilities, in order of increasing popularity on the Web, include RTOS's, RTOSes, and RTOSs. The ...

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 ...

An RTOS can implement a range of scheduling policies, and the application will often restrict a programmer’s choices (see the table). Non-preemptive scheduling is trivial to implement but useful in ...