The kernel dispatcher and associated subsystems provide for the prioritization and scheduling of kernel threads in one of several bundled scheduling classes. The details of the implementation are ...

Every RTOS has its own proprietary API, but some also support the POSIX standards. Here's a look at the parts of POSIX that apply to real-time systems. In today's computing systems, it is becoming ...

POSIX, which defines how to call functions common to UNIX-like OSs, is a standard that guarantees that 'it will work in any environment as long as it complies with POSIX.' POSIX has supported the ...

In this paper, we present an extension of the SystemC simulator in order to allow its execution on an IA-64 platform. Our approach relies on adding to SystemC a new user thread package in a simple way ...