Real-time constraints change the way designers architect control tasks. At a recently held conference on embedded software, a speaker fielded the following question from the audience: "When we build ...

Researchers from The University of Osaka's Institute of Scientific and Industrial Research (SANKEN) have successfully ...

Express Logic provides advanced, high quality software solutions for deeply embedded applications. The company was founded in 1996 by Bill Lamie, who did all of the initial products, including the ...

A newly released update to Linux delivers kernel pre-emption, improved scheduling, and a Posix (Portable Operating System Interface for Unix) for enhanced real-time performance. Depending on the ...

While the GNU/Linux Operating System is gaining popularity in research and student communities as well as in the business world, its impact is still limited for all those application areas requiring ...

The proliferation of multicore processors has done more than provide a boost in processing power to server applications. Multicore chips also pose the opportunity to revolutionize how embedded systems ...

As more complex devices with higher levels of integration are inserted into real-time systems, traditional testing methods are becoming obsolete. The most difficult obstacle to thorough testing of ...

Real-time systems and embedded computing have become foundational to modern engineering, underpinning applications from industrial automation and automotive control to aerospace and telecommunications ...

Many real-time systems need a database. However, choosing one can be challenging depending on performance requirements. Why external consistency is so important for a hard real-time database.