When selecting the optimal OS for an embedded systems project it is important to compare the available options – will RTOS or Linux serve best? asks Graeme Wintle. At a top level, the choice is ...

In the early days of the IBM PC era, when you wanted to know if a system was "IBM PC compatible", you'd try running Lotus Flight Simulator on it. That program exercised the system's hardware and ...

Over the past 10 years, Linux has successfully unseated some leading legacy RTOS platforms as the new embedded operating system of choice for a wide array of embedded devices and applications. Once ...

QuickLogic Corporation announced a partnership with TimeSys to deliver ready-to-run TimeSys Linux RTOS Professional Edition software development kits (SDK) for the QuickMIPS family of programmable ...

Embedded Linux vendor MontaVista Software last week launched the Open Source Real-Time Linux project, an initiative aimed at bolstering the ability of Linux to run as a real-time operating system in ...

Analyzing "hard" and "soft" real-time deadlines is critical when determining whether to assign application-software containers to Linux or an RTOS. Partitioning a multiprocessor system poses a ...

In this paper, the authors present their experiences of building Linux/RTOS (Real-Time Operating System) hybrid operating environments on Xen and Gandalf Virtual Machine Monitors (VMMs). Xen is a ...

If you're having trouble getting Linux to run on that 8-bit processor with 32KB of memory don't despair, there are open-source alternatives. FreeRTOS is an open source real time kernel that has been ...