With a share of 70 percent of the embedded market, embedded Linux is one the most popular embedded OS platforms. However, embedded Linux is too memory and processing-intensive for resource-constrained ...

The heavyweight “process model”, historically used by Unix systems, including Linux, to split a large system into smaller, more tractable pieces doesn’t always lend itself to embedded environments ...

I'm having some odd behaviour from pthreads which for the life of me I can't seem to figure out.<BR><BR>When calling pthread_create I'm just getting a return value of -1. errno is staying stuck at 0.

Issues with proprietary RTOS APIs. How does the POSIX pthread API stack up against proprietary APIs? Thread creation in POSIX. However, each proprietary API impedes embedded development by requiring ...

Most of the legacy code that needs porting to newer systems is serial code, meaning that the code runs on a single processor with only one instruction executing at a time. Modern OpenVPX boards ...

I need to do some polling in my application's lifetime. The polling thread must be running only in specific time frames. Instead of creating a new pthread each time, I thought it would be better to ...