Open standard RTOS application programming interfaces, such as POSIX pthread, help enhance software development.

An RTOS allows you to compose your applications out of multiple sequentially -programmed threads, thus extending the sequential programming paradigm with a valuable property known as composability. In ...

Scheduling and resource allocation are the dominant factors in determining what real-time operating system fits best.

In addition to trying to standardize jargon, trade journals help spread useful new techniques and best practices quickly. For example, numerous articles and columns in Embedded Systems Programming ...

Programming challenges and options Although the largest proportion of modern embedded software designs are implemented utilizing an OS of some kind, there are a couple of circumstances when doing ...

Some decades ago, the embedded industry shifted focus from assembly to C programming. Faster processors and better compilers allowed for raising the level of abstraction in order to improve ...

If real-time operating systems (RTOS) are the heart of safety-critical, air transport avionics, then ARINC 653 is at the heart’s core. RTOS conformance to the low-level capabilities described in ...

The F-35 JPO is looking to industry for ideas to improve the cybersecurity of the Lockheed Martin F-35 fighter and associated ground system.

Green Hills Software (www.ghs.com) has announced a major new release of its flagship Integrity real-time operating system. Integrity 11 includes performance, communication and ease-of-use features ...