Exciting news: I’m writing a chapter about FreeRTOS for the next edition of The Architecture of Open Source Applications! Greg Wilson, one of the editors of the book, (the other editor is Amy Brown) tweeted that they were looking for coverage for embedded software. Well, I thought, I’ve been wanting to learn about FreeRTOS, and [...]
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Embedded software and open source
Posted by svec on October 5, 2010
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Embedded guru and author Jack Ganssle’s latest “Embedded Muse” newsletter has a lot of good commentary on open source in embedded software projects: http://www.ganssle.com/tem/tem199.htm I subscribe to very few newsletters, and Jack’s is one of them. I read every issue, it’s that good. If you work in embedded software, or software of any kind, you [...]
Assigning Task Priorities with RMA
Posted by svec on August 15, 2010
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Embedded gurus Michael Barr and David Stewart have written a couple of great articles about assigning task priorities with RMA (the Rate Monotonic Algorithm): Introduction to Rate Monotonic Scheduling, by David Stewart and Michael Barr 3 Things Every Programmer Should Know About RMA, by Michael Barr The first article lays out the basics: RMA is [...]
I love embedded, and so does Woz!
Posted by svec on July 5, 2010
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I love working in the embedded world. Hardware + software = a great time and a great career. I came across this fantastic quote by Steve Wozniak in “Making it Big in Software,” by Sam Lightstone. Woz is talking about designing the Apple II: “And I did every piece of software from the ground up, [...]
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