The Linux kernel provides support for memory management, interprocess communication mechanisms, interrupt management, and TCP / IP networking. The directory structure separates architecture-dependent ...

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 ...

This course is used as the capstone in a three course sequence, including Linux System Programming and Introduction to Buildroot and Linux Kernel Programming and Introduction to Yocto Project. Both of ...

I won’t attempt to define the Internet of Things (IoT). Given its current state of development, many technologies and communication protocols still need to be defined. However, that’s also why there ...

USB 2.0, about forty times faster than conventional USB, makes its debut in Linux 2.6. The high speed USB devices support device bandwidth of up to 480 megabits per second, compared to 12 mbit/sec of ...

With bytes at a premium on phones and other devices, developers are looking for a way to make the kernel smaller and less chatty. An announcement of the revival of linux-tiny, a set of patches aimed ...

Embedded Office, a Germany-based embedded systems firm specialising in safety-critical applications, has announced the availability of a certification kit which uses the µC/OS-MPU real-time kernel as ...

eSOL offers the eT-Kernel Evaluation Kit for Xilinx Zynq-7000 All Programmable SoC. The kit combines the dual-core ARM Cortex-A9 MPCore processor with Xilinx's 28nm programmable-logic fabric. The ...

Configuration is the first step in building a kernel. There are many ways and various options to choose from. The kernel will generate a .config file at the end of the process and generate a series of ...