Power Suckers

Power Suckers

I have often observed that the world of embedded software is usually dominated by a small number of “fashionable” topics…

Multicore thread synchronization

Multicore thread synchronization

An article by my colleague Faheem Sheikh has just been published in EE Times, which covers multicore thread synchronization. Apart…

Measuring interrupt latency

Measuring interrupt latency

I have posted a couple of times recently [like here] about a recent webinar that I conducted on measuring RTOS…

RTOS in demand

RTOS in demand

As I mentioned previously, I presented a Web seminar last week. The topic was the measurement of RTOS performance. To…

Measuring RTOS performance – a Web seminar

Measuring RTOS performance – a Web seminar

There is still a common misconception that a real time system is simply one that responds quickly to demands. Although…

Trends

Trends

I was lucky enough to be invited to a preview of the results from UBM’s annual survey of embedded developers….

Looking forward to Embedded World

Looking forward to Embedded World

This week sees the 10th anniversary of the Embedded World conference in Nuremberg, Germany. This show and conference has been…

The invisible RTOS continued

The invisible RTOS continued

Last week I wrote about a test harness for applications using an RTOS. The idea was to have a library…

The invisible RTOS

The invisible RTOS

I was talking about OS-aware debuggers and someone asked me whether I could suggest a technique for unit testing of…