Editor's Note: Embedded Systems Architecture, 2nd Edition, is a practical and technical guide to understanding the components that make up an embedded system’s architecture. Offering detailed ...

The line between middleware and application software is blurred, which is why this chapter introduces both together. Middleware is software that has been abstracted out of the application layer for a ...

Real-time operating systems (RTOS) and Linux each bring their own advantages for embedded-systems designers. With an RTOS, designers can build deterministic multi-threaded applications with low memory ...

Embedded software and its specification is a vital component in deploying SoCs with reduced time-to-market. A key contribution to this is the technology area of embedded software architecture. This ...

If there is one thing in software engineering that is a given, it’s that engineers need continuous education. While graduating college might have made us think that we were “done,” the truth is that ...

Every good hardware or software design starts with a structured approach throughout the design cycle, but as chip architectures and applications begin focusing on specific domains and include some ...

This course will discuss the trends and challenges of modern embedded systems, and introduce fundamental concepts in their design and evaluation. The course topics include 1) models of computation for ...

Teams developing firmware and embedded software often develop their software on-target. While there isn’t necessarily anything wrong with using a development board to understand the processor, ...

Unmanned autonomous vehicles (UAVs) serve a critical need in a varietyof missions, including reconnaissance and search-and-destroy, as wellas outside the military in agriculture and forestry. However, ...

HUNTSVILLE, Ala.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--GE’s Intelligent Platforms business (NYSE:GE) today announced that it had been awarded a contract that will see the company undertaking a six month research program ...

It is no secret that Linux has won the race in the embedded device marketplace. Tremendous advantages in Linux have broken almost every barrier to entry for using Linux on embedded systems across a ...