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 ...

Today's embedded applications are rapidly evolving. Traditional DSP applications are adding networking and other control functionality. At the same time, the typical MCU control application will often ...

A plethora of task synchronization mechanisms is out there, from mutexes to messaging systems. From an RTOS perspective, no difference exists between them with respect to synchronization issues, such ...

The past decade has seen a shift from large, pc board-based systems in which computing is done in one location to an environment of many distributed small-footprint systems and subsystems, each of ...

Västerås, Sweden -- September 8, 2015 -- Percepio AB, the Swedish developer of RTOS visualization tools, today announced the availability of Tracealyzer version 3.0, initially supporting FreeRTOS and ...

One of many real time operating systems (RTOS), the FreeRTOS, is developed on STM32 microcontroller which offers a bunch of features that can be used in user programs. One of many real time operating ...

Modern DSP applications must respond quickly to many external events, be able to prioritize processing, and perform many tasks at once. These complex applications are also changing rapidly over time, ...