Embedded

Programming embedded systems: RTOS – automating the context switch

In the last lesson, you encountered the concept of a Real-Time Operating System (RTOS), and you worked out a manual procedure of switching the context from one thread to another. In this lesson, ...
Business Wire

Realtime Robotics RapidPlan Software Simplifies and Speeds Programming and Deployment Time for Industrial Robots

BOSTON & DETROIT--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Realtime Robotics, the leader in collision-free autonomous motion planning for industrial robots, today announced the release of its new RapidPlan software, which ...
Embedded

Programming embedded systems: event-driven programming

In this lesson, you will learn the main concepts behind event-driven programming, which, after object-oriented programming, is another fundamental stepping stone in understanding modern embedded ...
Electronic Design

Real-Time and Ada Programming

Like C, Ada is a compiled language. This means that the compiler will parse the source code and emit machine code native to the target hardware. The Ada compiler we’ll be discussing in this course is ...
Electronic Design

Real-Time Database Systems Aren't Actually Real-Time. Unless They Are.

Why external consistency is so important for a hard real-time database. Maintaining a transaction timeline. The impact of a transaction-scheduling policy. A real-time database-management system (DMBS) ...