Embedded systems handle specific tools that general operating systems cannot. Installing Windows on a smartphone will not work, nor is it desirable from a programming standpoint.

In this fourth lesson in the Real-Time Operating System (RTOS) series, you’ll see how to replace the horribly inefficient polling delay with efficient thread blocking.Specifically, in this lesson 25, ...

Embedded operating systems rule the world. By Barrie Sosinsky, Kay Tanielu; April 1, 2001; Embedded systems use dedicated computers or microprocessors to control or monitor a process. A simple example ...

newlib is often the most appropriate choice for a C runtime library in an embedded system. Read on to find out why. Embedding with GNU: Newlib Part 2 by Bill Gatliff The first part of this article ...

The operating system safeguards access to embedded-system resources, like I/O and system memory, assuring software integrity. Those familiar with Dynamic C will find RabbitSys easy to work with.

By Lara Farrar, CNN No doubt, it is difficult to design operating systems for computers that simultaneously run numerous applications, while managing interactions between multiple types of ...

A typical creation process would be installing an operating system on the root file as the VM boot disk. New VMs can be based on this VM disk. In the next step, a new QCOW2 file is set up for a ...

Embedded Android OS is not without its shortcomings however. Like all general purpose embedded operating systems, the code base carries significant processing overhead and a larger memory ...

Editor's Note: Embedded Systems Security aims for a comprehensive, systems view of security: hardware, platform software (such as operating systems and hypervisors), software development process, data ...

Choosing the right embedded operating system is not an easy decision. Over the past decade Windows and Linux-based operating systems have both eclipsed proprietary in-house operating systems. Some ...