When tasks share resources, as they often do, strange things can and will happen. Priority inversions in embedded systems can be particularly difficult to anticipate. Here’s an introduction to ...

How to verify RTOS best practices in runtime. How visual trace diagnostics can be used to analyze the software design and detect deviations from best practices. What is priority inheritance? Using a ...

What do memory leaks, deadlocks, and priority inversions have in common? They're all Hall of Famers in the pantheon of nasty firmware bugs. Finding and killing latent bugs in embedded software is a ...

Different tasks in an embedded system typically must share the same hardware and software resources or may rely on each other in order to function correctly. For these reasons, embedded OSs provide ...

Editor's Note: Embedded Systems Architecture, 2nd Edition, is a practical and technical guide to understanding the components that make up an embedded system’s architecture. Offering detailed ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract This paper is concerned with the queuing process which arises when one imposes nonzero crossover times on a nonpreemptive priority system with ...