With multicore embedded systems becoming so common, this article outlines some of the basics, reviewing the possible hardware architectures. Broadly, there are two options: Asymmetric Multi-Processing ...
The software on your particular computing platform is able to work because of complex layers of code and applications called an "operating system." While understanding how operating systems work might ...
This episode starts a new group of lessons about the architecture and design of embedded software. Today’s subject is the ubiquitous foreground-background architecture, also known as “superloop” or ...
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This course is used as the capstone in a three course sequence, including Linux System Programming and Introduction to Buildroot and Linux Kernel Programming and Introduction to Yocto Project. Both of ...
This course provides an overview of System Programming for the Linux operating system, or software which is interfacing directly with the Linux Kernel and C library. The basic components of a Linux ...
In today's competitive environment, prototyping is necessary to understand customers, create a new market or attend to what has been ignored by industry leaders. The big problem is that most engineers ...