Real-time operating systems (RTOS) and Linux each bring their own advantages for embedded-systems designers. With an RTOS, designers can build deterministic multi-threaded applications with low memory ...

At a design review meeting five short years ago, my suggestion to consider Linux for an embedded system's user interface and supervisory control met with a lukewarm response. Objections ranged from ...

Of the 200 exhibitors, roughly twenty identified themselves in the Show Guide as offering "Embedded Systems" products but nearly twice that number were promoting Embedded Linux products or services of ...