After introducing interrupts and the foreground/background architecture, I am finally ready to tackle the concept of a Real-Time Operating System (RTOS). In this first lesson on RTOS (commonly ...

Open-source or commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) operating systems? In an era of safety-critical embedded systems, the debate among developers is shifting.

A real-time system must respect time constraints to ensure that its execution makes functional sense. It must be deterministic, ensuring the execution of system processes a priori. After analyzing the ...

Wind River has announced the availability of virtualization for embedded systems. This allows operating systems to be mixed on a multicore chip. Gordon Haff Gordon Haff is Red Hat's cloud evangelist ...

In previous articles, we looked at how to configure the kernel as well as the key components of an embedded operating system (OS). This new article focuses on the hardware components of embedded Linux ...

At the start of the year, I highlighted key trends in 5 Embedded Software Trends to Watch in 2024, predicting the forces shaping the industry. As the year unfolded, many of these trends indeed drove ...

Dublin, Jan. 15, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The "Embedded Real-Time Operating Systems for the IoT Market - Global Forecast 2026-2032" has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering. The Embedded ...

Microsoft OSs are commonly found on general purpose PCs and servers. Newer versions come out every couple of years and the older ones are retired. OEMs wanting to use Microsoft Windows on dedicated ...