One of the most common applications for using function pointers is in task schedulers. Every embedded system contains some type of task scheduler whether it is a simple round robin loop or a state of ...

Real-Time Operating Systems (RTOS) have been extremely popular in recent years. Most engineers will select an RTOS very early on in the design cycle, sometimes even before requirements have been ...

In this fourth lesson in the Real-Time Operating System (RTOS) series, you’ll see how to replace the horribly inefficient polling delay with efficient thread blocking. Specifically, in this lesson 25, ...

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 ...

For a developer perusing the datasheets of the latest microcontrollers, it’s easy to assume that efficient use of CPU resources, including memory and clock cycles, is, at most, a minor concern with ...

Real-Time Operating Systems (RTOS) have been extremely popular in recent years. Most engineers will select an RTOS very early on in the design cycle, sometimes even before requirements have been ...