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The Taming of the Multicore

In the popular Shakespeare comedy, The Taming of the Shrew, Lucentio travels to Padua to attend school at the local university. Upon his arrival he meets the beautiful Bianca and,Read More...

Industry Insider

COMIT Interface Standard for Next-Generation COM Products The Small Form Factor Special Interest Group (SFF-SIG), a collaboration of suppliers of embedded component, board and systemRead More...

USB 3.0 Boosts Speed 10x, Broadens Embedded-Systems Applicability

USB has become the interface of choice for many PC and consumer products, having reached an installed base of more than six billion units and counting. It is the ubiquitousRead More...

A Framework for Safe Motion Control Firmware

Developing firmware for motion control systems can be a tricky business. Strict accuracy and repeatability combine with user safety to present a challenging set of requirements. How doRead More...

RTOS - The Heart of Good Power Management

Low power consumption is an essential requirement in many embedded applications. The growing importance of battery-powered applications for portable electronics, home automation andRead More...

Industry Insider

Intel has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Wind River Systems, under which Intel will acquire all outstanding Wind River common stock for $11.50 per share in cash, orRead More...

Exactly When Do You Need Real Time?

Most embedded systems today need some form of operating system. The question is, should it be a real-time operating system (RTOS) or a general-purpose operating system (GPOS)? In manyRead More...

USB Offers Many Choices for Use in Embedded Systems

USB is not a peer-to-peer protocol like Ethernet. One USB device, called the USB host, acts as the master. Other USB devices, called USB devices or USB peripherals, act as slaves. TheRead More...

Beyond Handsets: Android Platform Picking up Major Chip and Tools Supporters.

OK Labs Claims Mathematically Verified Microkernel / Hypervisor Technology

Android Moves Beyond Mobile

Industry Insider

One Stop Systems Purchases Ciprico Storage Product Lines One Stop Systems has purchased the exclusive manufacturing rights to Ciprico’s MediaVault, Talon 4, and DiMeda productRead More...

Hypervisor Enables MSI Support for all Operating Systems

A bare metal (Type 1) hypervisor allows the execution of real-time operating systems (RTOSs) in parallel to operating systems like Linux or Microsoft Windows XP without adding anyRead More...

Hypervisors Ease the World of Multicore Processors

In the realm of high-performance embedded 32-and 64-bit devices, it is becoming increasingly difficult to buy a single core processor. This means that systems that have beenRead More...

Hypervisors Leverage Multicore Processors for Embedded Systems

The newest multicore processors contain hardware-assisted virtualization features that enable hypervisors to be constructed in such a way that they can support multiple operatingRead More...

Look Before You Leap: Hypervisors Present New Design Challenges for Embedded Developers

Increasingly, hypervisors are being touted as a solution for consolidating multiple systems or applications onto a single piece of hardware. Using a hypervisor offers several potentialRead More...

Multi-Operating System Support for Intel’s New Embedded Quad-Core Core I7 Processors

The Intel Core i7 family has been widely used in the desktop and laptop market, and now the quad-core versions of the processor are available for embedded designs. Now LynxSecure 4.0Read More...

Core 2 Duo Embedded Computer now with QNX support

Triadem Solutions, the official QNX Distributor & Reseller in Switzerland, has developed a Board-Support-Package for the PIP20 platform boards from MPL that are integrated in its PIP20Read More...

CE Goes Multicore: Microsoft Windows Embedded Compact 7

Microsoft sells two operating systems tailored to the embedded community, confusingly named Windows Embedded Standard 7 and Windows Embedded Compact 7. Windows Embedded Standard 7Read More...

Adding Extra Levels of Security for Connected Client Devices

xxxx Embedded UI Design Tools Integrated with RTOS

Embedded UI Design Tools Integrated with RTOS

Plug-and-Play Integration of Avionics Software

A combination of DDS-compliant middleware with an ARINC 653-compliant RTOS dramatically reduces the time and cost required to develop and integrate distributed avionics software. TheRead More...

Adding Extra Levels of Security for Connected Client Devices

Much of today’s security focus is on securing the network from attack, as this has become a standard path for cyber crime and cyber warfare to infiltrate our computer systems. However,Read More...

Security Considerations in Embedded I/O Virtualization

In any embedded system, there is inevitably a need for sharing a limited set of physical I/O peripherals across workloads. The embedded operating system provides abstractions, such asRead More...

Embedded Virtualization on x86: A Technical Look at, Approaches and Solutions

With virtualization becoming an increasingly widely used technology in embedded systems, it is helpful to take a look at some of the “virtualization-specific” terminology and theRead More...

Securing and Improving the Smart Grid Requires Military Grade Technology

Reliability and resiliency of the Smart Grid must be the primary focus for utilities and their suppliers as the Smart Grid is critical to both national security and the global economy.Read More...

Where Have All the RTOSs Gone?

Gone to graveyards, every one? Or so it seems in the 32-bit embedded space these days. A real-time operating system, unlike a typical desktop operating system, is designed from theRead More...

Downloadable Modules Ease Memory Constraints in Small Embedded Systems

Embedded systems have always found themselves between a rock and a hard place with regard to the amount of memory available for their software and data. More is always desirable,Read More...

OpenComRTOS for Freescale PowerPC Processors Integrated into Designer Suite

For applications where performance is paramount, using less memory means higher performance and less energy consumption. The small code size of OpenComRTOS from Altreonic frees aRead More...

Making Embedded Systems More Secure with Windows Embedded Standard 7

Microsoft’s Windows Embedded Business supplies OEMs with platforms and technologies for embedded systems. Released in the spring of 2010, Windows Embedded Standard 7 delivers theRead More...

RTOS Adds Real-Time SMP Support for ARM MPCore

The ThreadX RTOS from Express Logic has been adapted for ARM’s MPCore multicore processor architecture. ThreadX/SMP, an enhanced version of ThreadX, provides synchronous multicoreRead More...

Software Systems Collaborate on Security and Resilience for Cloud Deployments

LynuxWorks and TransLattice have announced that they have ported the TransLattice Application Platform 2.0 onto the latest version of the LynxSecure separation kernel andRead More...

Large Operating Systems Have Embraced Embedded. Did Anyone Notice?

Here’s a riddle: What do Windows CE, Linux and Java all have in common? Answer: They were all originally designed with no thought to their use in embedded and real-timeRead More...

Android—At Last A Ubiquitous Embedded OS?

This article is the third in a series written for RTC discussing the potential and reality for developing and deploying embedded systems using Android. The first, “Android Moves BeyondRead More...

IEC 62304-Compliant RTOS for Medical Devices

A new version of the QNX Neutrino RTOS has been developed to help medical device manufacturers reduce the effort of building infusion pumps, patient monitoring devices, blood analysisRead More...

Secure Hypervisor Offers Increased Endpoint and Server Protection

A new version of a secure hypervisor has been designed to offer military-grade protection for the latest generation of laptops, desktops, servers and embedded systems, helping protectRead More...

Embedded Virtualization Meets Real-time Needs in Multi-OS Systems

Embedded systems often employ multiple computing platforms with each running different operating systems. Typically, there is a real-time operating system (RTOS) on one platform toRead More...

Safety and Multimedia Collide in Next-Generation Automobiles

At last year’s CES trade show, I saw a snazzy car demo in which each rear-seat passenger had a different high-definition movie playing on the two screens mounted on seat backs.Read More...

Security in the Cloud

As more enterprises look to the cloud as a mechanism for both data sharing and data streaming, key concerns of security of the cloud continue to emerge, even for private andRead More...

Pick the Right Operating System for Your Consumer Device

Innovative consumer electronics products have replaced business information technology systems as the major force driving the electronics industry. The explosive growth in this marketRead More...

Virtualization Software Enables Development of RTOS Applications to Run Alongside Windows or Stand-Alone

An updated release of INtime for Windows and the new INtime Distributed RTOS from TenAsys provide a new level of flexibility for embedded system developers in reducing system-levelRead More...

BYOD for Industrial Control and Automation

The enterprise world is going mobile, driven by distributed workforces, the need to stay connected, and the sheer productive horsepower of modern handheld devices. However, unlike PCsRead More...