Xiaocong Fan’s new book, Real-Time Embedded Systems, is a weighty tome at 662 pages. It’s a textbook, not an O’Reilly or Microsoft Press-style quick read. Each chapter ends with problems. The ...

A real-time operating system (RTOS) is key to many embedded systems today and, provides a software platform upon which to build applications. Not all embedded systems, however, are designed with an ...