One of the most common applications for using function pointers is in task schedulers. Every embedded system contains some type of task scheduler whether it is a simple round robin loop or a state of ...

The key concepts of RTOS schedulers were covered in a previous article. Here we will look at the facilities offered by Nucleus RTOS and, in much more detail, those provided by Nucleus SE. Since ...

Real-Time Operating Systems (RTOS) have been extremely popular in recent years. Most engineers will select an RTOS very early on in the design cycle, sometimes even before requirements have been ...

Sporadic events are the bugaboo of many real-time systems. Finding a way to manage aperiodic behavior can spell the difference between system failure and system success. This article presents the ...

You stare at the log output. It seems okay, and yet the bug is still hiding. Was Task A missing its deadline? You don’t know. Was a priority inversion quietly breaking the scheduler? Again, you don’t ...

For a developer perusing the datasheets of the latest microcontrollers, it’s easy to assume that efficient use of CPU resources, including memory and clock cycles, is, at most, a minor concern with ...