eSOL, a developer of real-time embedded software solutions, has ported its multitasking kernel, PrKERNELv4, to Altera's Nios II soft-core embedded processor. PrKERNELv4 is a compact preemptive kernel ...

A multitasking method that shares processing time with all running programs. Preemptive multitasking creates a time-shared environment in which running programs receive a recurring slice of time from ...

This fifth lesson on RTOS finally addresses the real-time aspect of the “Real-Time Operating System” name. Specifically, in the video lesson 26, you add a preemptive, priority-based scheduler to the ...

Selecting a plural form for the acronym RTOS is hard; there's no one right way to spell it. Some possibilities, in order of increasing popularity on the Web, include RTOS's, RTOSes, and RTOSs. The ...

Vice President of Marketing, Express Logic Inc. In 1997, Bill Lamie, author of the ThreadX RTOS, wrote an article entitled “Multitasking Mysteries Revealed.” In that article, Bill examined some of the ...

Have you ever thought about how smart devices like mobile phones work? As you likely already know, the backbone for such technologies are their operating systems. Today, there are many operating ...