A real-time operating system (RTOS) is specialized control software that's often used in embedded computing applications that have tight memory resources and stringent performance requirements ...

When do you need to use a real-time operating system (RTOS) for an embedded project? What does it bring to the table, and what are the costs? Fortunately there are strict technical definitions, whi… ...

This is a big year for commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) real-time operating systems (RTOS). Green Hills Software (GHS), LynuxWorks and Wind River Systems have recently passed or plan shortly to ...

“Real-time operating systems serve a critical role in ensuring safety at the processing level because they guarantee that hundreds, if not thousands, of specific algorithms get executed on time ...

A new research paper makes a not-so-thinly-veiled reference to Microsoft's secret project to develop a non-Windows-based operating system and programming environment.

Linux is not a real-time operating system (RTOS), meaning that it can’t respond to requests in the real world within a set timeframe.

April 17, 2007, Tokyo, Japan —Altera Japan, Ltd. in conjunction with A.I. Corporation, an embedded software distributor and the TOPPERS Project, a nonprofit organization, announced today the ...

In both of these cases, a real-time operating system executes high-priority tasks first, within known, predictable time frames. This means that the operating system cannot impose undue overhead in ...

The quest for compatibility and portability is a perpetual challenge in embedded systems. While many systems today have adopted real-time operating systems (RTOS), each is unique and different enough ...

The operating system is part of the system software layer (Figure 1). The function of the system software is to manage the resources for the application. Examples of system resources that must be ...

The work done on real-time Linux has benefitted the open-source OS for years, but it was only this week that Linus Torvalds admitted its last piece into the mainline kernel. Exactly what took so long?