Although several Linux start-ups have vanished, the embedded-OS market is rife with competition and MontaVista is betting on Linux for success.

Embedded Linux is the most hyped embedded operating system ever. It is promoted as inexpensive, high quality, high productivity, reliable, widely available, and well supported. It is none of these ...

The very first step in starting an embedded Linux system does not involve Linux at all. Instead, the processor is reset and starts executing code from a given location. This location contains a ...

Embedded Alley's Android and Linux products and services will be offered with the Mentor Graphics Nucleus real-time operating system, tools and middleware. Mentor Graphics is planning to provide ...

It's Linux' modular design, a kernel whose features designers can pick-and-choose among, which is causing this revolution in embedded systems.

When it comes to choosing between Embedded Linux or a proprietary real-time operating system, there are many different considerations to take into account.

To preserve the benefits of Linux as a development platform while addressing the need for customized versions of Linux, not to mention special-purpose non-Linux kernels, Red Hat Systems has taken a ...

The Linux operating system configured and enhanced to work in a wide variety of applications, including handheld devices, network appliances, industrial machines and consumer electronics devices ...

Cross-platform development The traditional model for Embedded Linux (and all embedded system development) is cross-platform development. In this development style, you create your software on a ...

If you could travel back in time to the Embedded Systems Conference of September 1999, you would find that the “Embedded Linux Market” simply did not exist one short year ago. Sure, a growing number ...