The take away from this is that Linux is not a hard real-time operating system. With a few tricks and extensions, it can do some soft real-time tasks. The best solution is to either use an ...

Real-Time Operating Systems (RTOS) are increasingly being used in safety-critical applications such as medical technology, ...

Considering two different operating systems: Nucleus and Linux or Android each have useful characteristics for numerous embedded applications. Nucleus shines when the application has a hard real time ...

Zotac will showcase a follow-up to its Zone handheld gaming PC at Computex next week. The device features upgraded hardware ...

What could you use this for? A lot of hobbyists use realtime kernels on Linux when building CNC machine controllers and robots, where things like motor control put tight constraints on how quickly ...