The economic downturn and rock-solid software have combined to boost interest in the Linux operating system for myriad embedded-system applications. Small-footprint configurations of the Linux kernel ...

A number of suppliers of embedded software development tools have recently announced that they are “supporting” or even “embracing” embedded Linux. Having been there and done that, I have some news ...

Embedded systems use dedicated computers or microprocessors to control or monitor a process. A simple example is when an application program inserts embedded printing commands into a document to ...

Is the Android OS morphing into a new form of embedded Linux? Android is a Linux OS derivative perched to make inroads beyond its growing user base in smartphones and tablets. Some auto makers are ...

It might not come as much of a surprise, but according to a recent survey conducted by EE Times, Linux continues to tear up the charts in the embedded market (embedded refers to special-purpose PCs ...

Today, embedded systems are so common that you’d have a hard time looking in any direction without seeing a device which contains one – if you know where to look. Lately, a movement toward embedded as ...

Linux vendor Red Hat Inc. is partnering with embedded operating system vendor Wind River Systems Inc. to jointly create Red Hat’s first-ever embedded Linux operating system, while Wind River plans to ...

The world of intelligent devices is changing dramatically. The computerized devices around us are getting smarter; they're increasingly connected and interdependent, and they're becoming vastly more ...

Some of the reasons Microsoft has not cracked into the embedded software market as much as might be expected are peculiar to the software giant, and some pertain to the market as a whole. The primary ...

Linux processes are made up of text, data, and BSS static segments; in addition, each process has its own stack (which is created with the fork system call). Heap space for Linux tasks are allocated ...

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