White Paper: Exactly When Do You Need an RTOS?

Together, the speed of today’s high-performance processors and realtime patches for general-purpose OSs appear to have reopened the question of whether embedded systems still need an RTOS. The answer hasn’t changed: the guarantees only a true RTOS can offer on relatively low-end processors mean that these OSs are here to stay in embedded environments.

By Paul N. Leroux
January 26th, 2010
White Paper: Exactly When Do You Need an RTOS?

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1Do most embedded projects still need an RTOS? It’s a good question, given the speed of today’s high-performance processors and the availability of realtime patches for Linux, Windows, and other general-purpose operating systems (GPOSs).

Together, the speed of today’s high-performance processors and realtime patches for general-purpose OSs appear to have reopened the question of whether embedded systems still need an RTOS. The answer hasn’t changed: the guarantees only a true RTOS can offer on relatively low-end processors mean that these OSs are here to stay in embedded environments.

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