This excerpt offers a introduction and review of embedded operating systems. In Part 1, the author defined the unique characteristics of an embedded OS and describes how an embedded OS works with ...

On a final note, while scheduling and memory management are the leading components impacting performance, to get a more accurate analysis of OS performance one must measure the impact of both types of ...

Short Term vs. Long Term Scheduling. Most computer operating systems must multi-task. They use a scheduling algorithm that decides which of the many processes can be run at any given time. It puts ...

Scheduling Algorithms For a given set of jobs the main goal of a scheduling algorithm is to determine an execution order according to which the requirements of each job are satisfied [6]. In a ...