What Operating Systems Are Generally Used in Aircraft?

What Operating Systems Are Generally Used in Aircraft?

Reprinted from Linux Fan What operating systems are generally used on airplanes? This is the answer many people have been wanting to know. This section is based on an answer from V friends reprinted from Baidu Zhidao: Aerospace software is not mysterious; from a computer architecture perspective, it is not much different from ordinary computer … Read more

Eight Major Operating Systems for IoT

Eight Major Operating Systems for IoT

Introduction: The tech industry has devoted a significant amount of time to the IoT craze. For-profit tech companies and members of the open-source community are promoting their respective operating systems, claiming to be the best fit for various IoT applications. However, not every operating system is suitable for all IoT purposes. As a result, there … Read more

Differences Between Circular Queue and Message Queue in RTOS

Differences Between Circular Queue and Message Queue in RTOS

Original from WeChat Official Account | Embedded Column “Circular queue” and “message queue” are widely used in the embedded field, and experienced embedded software engineers are likely familiar with them. However, beginners often have related questions. Today, I will share some content about “circular queues” and “message queues”. Circular Queue A circular queue is a … Read more

Understanding Synchronization and Mutual Exclusion in RTOS

Understanding Synchronization and Mutual Exclusion in RTOS

1. The Concepts of Synchronization and Mutual Exclusion To understand synchronization and mutual exclusion in one sentence: I wait for you to finish using the bathroom before I use it. What is synchronization? It is: Hey, I am using the bathroom, please wait. What is mutual exclusion? It is: Hey, I am using the bathroom, … Read more

CLion Tutorial: Multithreading RTOS Debugging

CLion Tutorial: Multithreading RTOS Debugging

When debugging with RTOS, CLion provides views for FreeRTOS, Azure RTOS, and Zephyr tasks (threads). For FreeRTOS, you can also explore objects and the heap. Some gdb servers have built-in support for different RTOS. To ensure proper integration with CLion, make sure to disable built-in support on the gdb server side. To enable the RTOS … Read more

Understanding Task State Machine in FreeRTOS

Understanding Task State Machine in FreeRTOS

In the previous article, we used FreeRTOS to light up an LED, which essentially got FreeRTOS running. To effectively use an RTOS, it is necessary to understand how the scheduler works from a black-box perspective. Of course, if you want to study its internal implementation, you can read the source code. However, I feel that … Read more

A Detailed Overview of Automotive Operating System Status

A Detailed Overview of Automotive Operating System Status

Introduction: In the context of software-defined vehicles, the operating system is the soul of the automotive ecosystem development. With the advancement of vehicle electrification, intelligence, and connectivity, automotive operating systems have become one of the important components of vehicles, determining to some extent the vehicle’s safety, comfort, intelligence level, and overall performance. 1. Introduction to … Read more

Is Linux a Real-Time Operating System or Time-Sharing Operating System?

Is Linux a Real-Time Operating System or Time-Sharing Operating System?

The systems we usually share, such as µC/OS, FreeRTOS, RT-Thread, ThreadX, are all real-time operating systems (RTOS). So some readers ask: What is a time-sharing operating system, and does Linux belong to real-time operating systems? Real-Time Operating System (RTOS) RTOS, the full English name is Real Time Operating System, which means real-time operating system. 1. … Read more

Key Technologies and Development Trends of Industrial Real-Time Operating Systems

Key Technologies and Development Trends of Industrial Real-Time Operating Systems

The article “Key Technologies and Development Trends of Industrial Real-Time Operating Systems” by Meng Yan, Li Mingshi, and Deng Changyi from the National Industrial Information Security Development Research Center was published in the 3rd issue of 2024 in “New Industrialization”. The full text is shared as follows: Key Technologies and Development Trends of Industrial Real-Time … Read more