Embedded system developers have a wide range of operating systems available to them today. Of course, the most straightforward operating system is to have no operating system! However, many systems ...

Last March, the research firm Venture Development Corporation had a surprise for the embedded operating systems industry. In VDC's rankings for 2002, Wind River Systems-the long-time embedded OS ...

The planned successor to the embedded version of Windows XP, due from Microsoft Corp. two years from now, may bypass Windows Vista and instead be based on the oft-maligned operating system’s own ...

The company has lined up high-profile partners for an upcoming version of its Windows software designed to be stuffed into all sorts of nontraditional computing gadgets. Stephen Shankland worked at ...

After introducing interrupts and the foreground/background architecture, I am finally ready to tackle the concept of a Real-Time Operating System (RTOS). In this first lesson on RTOS (commonly ...

Some of the reasons Microsoft has not cracked into the embedded software market as much as might be expected are peculiar to the software giant, and some pertain to the market as a whole. The primary ...

The wraps are off Microsoft's Windows 2000 embedded operating system (OS). Whistler Embedded's modular design lets developers use Windows 2000's advanced features in embedded designs that now rely on ...

The Windows CE 5.0 Network Media Device Feature Pack may be a mouthful, but it's going to make Windows CE easier to swallow. Microsoft is working to add functionality to its popular Windows CE ...

Complexity of industrial applications and expanding functionality of semiconductors are driving embedded developers toward solutions that combine proven hardware and software platforms. The increasing ...

SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., April 23, 2003 – MontaVista Software, Inc., the company powering the embedded revolution, and Tensilica®, Inc., the leading supplier of configurable and extensible ...