In a recent article in Integrated Communications Design, Mike Downing interviews Curt Schacker, vice president of corporate marketing for Wind River Systems. In the interview, Schacker expresses his ...

Editor's Note: Linux remains an attractive option for embedded systems developers. In fact, industry surveys such as the Embedded Market Study by UBM (EDN's parent company) consistently show interest ...

The adoption of Linux is accelerating, as it is becoming the operating system of choice for a variety of embedded applications. However, designers of these performance-intensive, embedded SoCs running ...

For sensor-based applications that require real-time acquisition and control, an embedded data acquisition (DAQ) solution offers substantial benefits, including cost-savings, less complexity, and the ...

Linux continues to be a significant platform for embedded and real-time embedded applications. Doug Abbot brings his expertise on embedded Linux and BlueCat Linux in particular. A copy of this is ...

One of the last things the Linux kernel does during system boot is mount the root filesystem. The Linux kernel dictates no filesystem structure, but user space applications expect to find files with ...

USB 2.0, about forty times faster than conventional USB, makes its debut in Linux 2.6. The high speed USB devices support device bandwidth of up to 480 megabits per second, compared to 12 mbit/sec of ...

Fjall 3.0 brings faster, safer embedded storage for Rust apps on Raspberry Pi and other Linux devices, with new formats and ...

Embedded Linux systems are becoming increasingly common due to their superior accessibility, cost-effectiveness, and ...

Charles Darwin, in his Beagle Diary that led to the book Voyage of the Beagle, wrote while in Peru, “On the hills near Lima, at a height but little greater, the ground is carpeted with moss, and beds ...

Imagine this: The company you work for has just invested tons of money on a custom Linux OS for a fleet of touch-screen devices because hardware driver support for that device didn’t exist. In ...