With a share of 70 percent of the embedded market, embedded Linux is one the most popular embedded OS platforms. However, embedded Linux is too memory and processing-intensive for resource-constrained ...

The heavyweight “process model”, historically used by Unix systems, including Linux, to split a large system into smaller, more tractable pieces doesn’t always lend itself to embedded environments ...

Issues with proprietary RTOS APIs. How does the POSIX pthread API stack up against proprietary APIs? Thread creation in POSIX. However, each proprietary API impedes embedded development by requiring ...

I need to do some polling in my application's lifetime. The polling thread must be running only in specific time frames. Instead of creating a new pthread each time, I thought it would be better to ...