In my writings about past embedded systems conferences, I've characterized the impact of Linux on the embedded market as a “disruptive technology” that was rewriting the rules of the game. Not any ...

Real-time operating systems (RTOS) and Linux each bring their own advantages for embedded-systems designers. With an RTOS, designers can build deterministic multi-threaded applications with low memory ...

Meantime, the mainstream commercial and open-source communities have been busy adopting their core software architectures to suit small-footprint embedded systems—with the result, for example, that at ...