Embedded Linux vendor MontaVista Software last week launched the Open Source Real-Time Linux project, an initiative aimed at bolstering the ability of Linux to run as a real-time operating system in ...

QuickLogic Corporation announced a partnership with TimeSys to deliver ready-to-run TimeSys Linux RTOS Professional Edition software development kits (SDK) for the QuickMIPS family of programmable ...

Linux has become well-established in the world of embedded design, but there are often reservations about its real-time performance. There are significant advantages to using Linux. A careful analysis ...

When selecting the optimal OS for an embedded systems project it is important to compare the available options – will RTOS or Linux serve best? asks Graeme Wintle. At a top level, the choice is ...

Over the past 10 years, Linux has successfully unseated some leading legacy RTOS platforms as the new embedded operating system of choice for a wide array of embedded devices and applications. Once ...

New challenges have always excited Linux and its evangelist followers namely the Linux community. With the latest release of Linux, the community claims that they are offering Linux to be more or less ...

In this paper, the authors present their experiences of building Linux/RTOS (Real-Time Operating System) hybrid operating environments on Xen and Gandalf Virtual Machine Monitors (VMMs). Xen is a ...

Partitioning a multiprocessor system poses a challenge to embedded-systems architectural designers. This is particularly true in complex multifaceted systems that must provide both "hard" ...

If you can't beat 'em, join 'em. And that's what Enea and Metrowerks have done. Their collaboration merges the OSE Nucleus and OSEck real-time operating system (RTOS) with Metrowerks Linux and the ...

The Linux Foundation is a non-profit organization that sponsors the work of Linus Torvalds. Supporting companies include HP, IBM, Intel, and a host of other large corporations. The foundation hosts ...

SANTA CLARA, USA: MontaVista Software, Inc., the leader in embedded Linux commercialization, announces open registration for two new educational webinars. The online webinars, on Tuesday, December 9, ...