The problem with desynchronizing your code by moving parts of it into different tasks is that many of the resources your software wants to use—certain hardware, data structures in memory, files—can’t ...

CircuitPython users may be interested in a new real-time operating system (RTOS) created for the CircuitPython platform the aim of providing a pure Python RTOS. pyRTOS was modeled after FreeRTOS, with ...

How to verify RTOS best practices in runtime. How visual trace diagnostics can be used to analyze the software design and detect deviations from best practices. What is priority inheritance? Using a ...

Real-time operating systems (RTOSs) are finding their way into nearly every IoT device. The capability of an RTOS to manage low-level resources and complex timing requirements make them well suited ...

GERMANTOWN, Md.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--On January 10, 2017, Barr Group, The Embedded Systems Experts ® will host a free one-hour embedded systems design webinar, “How to Prioritize RTOS Tasks (and Why it ...

In previous articles, we have looked at the multi-tasking model and we have seen that each task is a quasi-independent program. Although tasks in an embedded application have a degree of independence, ...