can be written with a minimum amount of code, yet they are fraught with danger for the real-time designer. In the same way, this book has a kind of Zen-like simplicity and complexity: a yin and a yang ...

For example, a real-time microcontroller-based system with various external switches is expected to respond immediately when a switch is activated or some other event occurs. A real-time operating ...

The take away from this is that Linux is not a hard real-time operating system. With a few tricks and extensions, it can do some soft real-time tasks. The best solution is to either use an ...

Some operating systems can use more than one operational mode. For example, the engine management system within a car uses a real-time operating system to react to feedback from sensors placed ...