很多做嵌入式开发的小伙伴都存在这样的疑惑：RTOS与Linux到底有什么区别？ RTOS：Real Time Operating System，即实时操作系统，是指当外界事件或数据产生时，能够接受并以足够快的速度予以处理，其处理的结果又能在规定的时间之内来控制生产过程或对处理系统做出 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Issues with proprietary RTOS APIs. How does the POSIX pthread API stack up against proprietary APIs? Thread creation in POSIX. However, each proprietary API impedes embedded development by requiring ...