Open-source or commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) operating systems? In an era of safety-critical embedded systems, the debate among developers is shifting.

The company has lined up high-profile partners for an upcoming version of its Windows software designed to be stuffed into all sorts of nontraditional computing gadgets. Stephen Shankland worked at ...

Linux is set to become the de facto standard in so-called "embedded" devices like robotics, information appliances and automobile information systems, but fragmentation could prove a stumbling block, ...

Wind River Systems, the leading provider of a realtime embedded operating system known as VxWorks, for example, unveiled this week its first reselling agreement with semiconductor distributor the ...

The Linux operating system is set to become the de facto standard for "embedded" devices like robotics, information appliances and automobile information systems, but fragmentation could prove a ...

LONDON — About half the embedded systems engineers that read EE Times Europe, are planning to use Linux as an embedded operating system, according to respondents to a poll. Some 49 percent of the ...

For each embedded product, software developers need to consider whether they need an operating system; and if so, what type of an OS. Operating systems vary considerably, from real-time operating ...

PARK RIDGE, Ill. – The law of supply and demand will face a curious test over the next few years, as embedded and small footprint iappliance Linux vendors search for a way to make engineers pay for an ...