Editor's Note: Embedded Linux has consistently ranked among the top operating systems used in embedded system design. With the rapid growth in interest in the Internet of Things (IoT), the ability of ...

The Linux kernel provides support for memory management, interprocess communication mechanisms, interrupt management, and TCP / IP networking. The directory structure separates architecture-dependent ...

Editor's Note: Embedded Linux has consistently ranked among the top operating systems used in embedded systems design. With the rapid growth in interest in the Internet of Things (IoT), the ability of ...

Editor's Note: Linux remains an attractive option for embedded systems developers. In fact, industry surveys such as the Embedded Market Study by UBM (EDN's parent company) consistently show interest ...

Demand Peripherals, Inc., makes an FPGA-based robot controller that gives a robot or other industrial control systems the high I/O pin count and precise timing that a Linux laptop or single-board ...

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Traditionally in a UNIX-style operating system, processes access devices via the /dev directory. Within this directory are hundreds of device nodes allocated as either block or character devices, each ...