Embedded

Thread versus task management in a dual mode DSP/RISC RTOS environment

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 ...
EDN

RTOS Task Switching: An Example Implementation In C

View the slideshow demonstrates in seven steps the process of switching from a lower priority task, called TaskA, to a higher priority task, called TaskB. These slides demonstrate the concepts ...
Embedded

Using design patterns to identify and partition tasks in an RTOS environment: Part 3

In the object-oriented software community, an architectural pattern defines a fundamental structural organization or schema for a software system. It provides a set of predefined subsystems, specifies ...
Electronic Design

RTOS Mixes DSP And General Applications On DSP Architecture

The Blackfin DSP architecture from Analog Devices targets DSP and general-purpose applications where dual processor cores often are the only alternative. Meanwhile, Quadros' RTXC/dm dual-mode ...
Design-Reuse

Express Logic's ThreadX RTOS Gains MIPS SDE Kernel-Aware Debug Support

SAN DIEGO, Calif. -- November 28, 2006--Express Logic, Inc., the worldwide leader in royalty-free real-time operating systems (RTOS) and First Silicon Solutions (FS2), a division of MIPS Technologies, ...