Editor's Note: Embedded Systems Architecture, 2nd Edition, is a practical and technical guide to understanding the components that make up an embedded system’s architecture. Offering detailed ...

An RTOS facilitates meeting some system-design constraints. But, minimizing interrupt latency isn't the only way to ensure that jobs get done within time specifications. Most developers think of a ...

Android mobile operating system, which is based on Linux Kernel 2.6, has open source license and adaptability to user driven applications. As all other operating systems it has all the basic features ...

Real time embedded systems typically use a collection of application tasks or threads that must complete their work within real time constraints. Real time systems generally employ preemptive ...

Sporadic events are the bugaboo of many real-time systems. Finding a way to manage aperiodic behavior can spell the difference between system failure and system success. This article presents the ...