In a General-Purpose Operating System (GPOS or OS), the OS takes responsibility for scheduling all tasks or threads of execution.  Often user tasks take priority…

Real time applications are executed on real time operating systems (RTOS). To facilitate this, specific algorithms that are bound to dynamically or statically assigned priorities…

Though RTOS have numerous characteristics such as; data security and integrity, platform independence, multicore support, graphics compatibility, and power management, this article will focus on…

Ethernet is an amazing standard that beat out other topologies like Token Ring long ago.  But the better part of the standard is how it…

Real time systems are designed to respond to real events within a bounded time frame and before measurable deadlines. However, they are also designed to…