As multi-core processors become an integral part of the embedded landscape, designers of real-time systems are looking for the best way to take advantage of the improved performance and flexible architecture while minimizing software rework. Designers want to incorporate multi-core architecture to boost performance through parallel processing and to minimize hardware costs by combining platforms. Because of the long life cycle of many embedded applications, designers must also interact with mul...Read More

Using multi-core software for real-time control can help developers lower costs, raise quality, and increase differentiation.  In the latest Embedded Innovator newsletter, IntervalZero shows how to achieve these goals with its hard real-time extensions to Microsoft Windows*.   You can access more articles like this by subscribing to the Embedded Innovator .  Subscribers receive a quarterly newsletter as well as the annual Embedded Innovator magazine.   Both the n...Read More

Today the Internet and its associated communications standards provide the ability to deliver nearly every type of media to any location that has enough bandwidth to service the request. What was once an advanced research project sponsored by the US Military has become over-run by the civilian uses of the medium. Developing both media servers and media clients for the wide range of media types is no small task. Looking at defined, commonly used media types for ordinary consumption, we can divid...Read More

  There's a critical difference between servers and embedded systems. Usually, embedded systems include realtime operation requirements - most servers do not. Where servers work correctly so long as the software completes and performs a logically-oriented algorithm, hard realtime embedded systems fail if the algorithm doesn't complete in time. Developers of soft realtime embedded systems gain a technique to make the system function even if the algorithm fails to complete in time on occasio...Read More