Mountain View, Calif. – Software's growing importance to system-on-chip design is no longer news; neither is the idea that today's SoCs typically comprise several processor types. But there has been ...

Wait Time Handling: Tasks can be delayed and scheduled based on wait times, managed by the RTOS. Task Control Block (TCB): Each task is represented by a TCB containing the task’s status, registers, ...

The scheduler may start and stop each task (swap each task in and out) as the application executes. Each task has its own memory stack (TCB - Task Control Block) What is a Task Control Block? It is a ...

While real-time operating system (RTOS) software is becoming a key feature in the out-of-box support for embedded systems built around MCUs, the overall concept of RTOS is still muddy for many design ...