A full service, well supported and highly controllable tool for all your formal testing needs. (more…)

National Scientific Corporation (“NSC”, Scottsdale, Arizona) and its European partner Followit AB have developed locator technology that is a merger of cell phone and global positioning RF systems technologies. Using this technology, small, portable devices can be placed in a vehicle or on a person for use in tracking or locating assets or people in more than 120 countries around the world. (more…)

In this guest editorial, TimeSys VP of Technology Doug Locke offers a rebuttal to Victor Yodaiken's recently published whitepaper on what's wrong with using a technique called 'priority inheritance' to avoid a problem in real-time systems known as 'priority inversion'. (more…)

Foreword: 'Linux's Future in the Embedded Systems Market' is an analysis by Venture Development Corporation (VDC) of the current size and future growth of the worldwide market for embedded Linux software solutions. This multiclient study is designed to provide subscribers with relevant and up-to-date market intelligence to support strategic marketing and product… (more…)

Foreword: Two companies (SnapGear and RidgeRun) recently announced dynamic linking support for uClinux using two different approaches. (more…)

Are you looking for small pre-built systems for implementing your Linux-based projects or products? Look no further. In response to numerous inquiries, LinuxDevices.com has assembled a reference list of small systems that can serve as ready-made platforms for prototyping applications, or as the basis of application-specific Linux-based systems and devices. (more…)

Avoid last-minute changes and none-too-perfect product launches with this cooperative method of design. (more…)

Writing for ZDNet UK, Matthew Broersma interviews the new Linux kernel maintainer about opportunities for Linux in applications big and small, and explains why UnitedLinux is a good idea . . . (more…)

TCP/IP breaks into industrial automation, but not without some problems.

The industrial automation sector is rapidly advancing into the use of TCP/IP over Ethernet as a replacement for traditional data connectivity. Many of these devices implement application protocols that mirror their older cousins. (more…)

There are many reasons for the accelerating trend to move Residential Gateway (RG) products to Linux-based platforms. These RG products include traditional router/gateway, firewall, and low-end functions that were handled by a proprietary RTOS, as well as new devices needing Virtual Private Network (VPN) support, Voice-Over-'X', and other value-add features. (more…)

Pull up a Zaurus and make yourself comfortable.

You just got your Zaurus and you are very proud of it. You tried every single application, then even typed some commands in the terminal, like uname -a, ping localhost and ifconfig to prove to yourself that it really is a GNU/Linux machine in the palm of your hand. (more…)

In this technical whitepaper, RTLinux originator Victor Yodaiken details what he perceives to be the disadvantages of dealing with the issue of priority inversion in real-time systems by means of a commonly used software technique known as priority inheritance. Priority inversion refers to the situation when a scheduled task must wait for a lower priority task to complete. (more…)

The Embedded Linux Expo and Conference (ELEC) was held June 11, 2002 in Dallas. The turn-out for the event was good. (more…)

Toshiba's Computer Systems Group (Irvine, CA) recently introduced the Magnia SG20 wireless mobility server, a compact, Linux-based portable wireless server. About the size of a typical notebook computer, the appliance-like device is intended to make it easy to pack up an entire network and take it on the road. (more…)

The recent announcement of Adeos by Philippe Gerum, Karim Yaghmour, Paolo Mantegazza, and a variety of organizations provides an exciting opportunity to real-time Linux developers. Is there a new, completely GPL, Open Source, solution for hard real-time with Linux? If so, is the solution a sound one? I'll provide my… (more…)