Embedded system developers have a wide range of operating systems available to them today. Of course, the most straightforward operating system is to have no operating system! However, many systems ...

When I first started writing embedded software, the environments that I found to be the most efficient and easiest to use were only available on Microsoft Windows. In fact, it wasn’t uncommon for ...

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 ...

CAMAS, Wash.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 28, 2004--Sharp Corporation announced today that Sharp and IBM Japan, Ltd. have collaborated on development of a 1 megabyte Flash memory card equipped with IBM's ...

Need to run more than one operating system at a time? Doing so can be very handy for supporting backward compatibility. It's also a useful way to isolate new platforms while running an existing ...