Renesas Electronics Corporation, a supplier of advanced semiconductor solutions, recently unveiled the R-Car Software Development Kit (SDK) — a complete software platform in a single package that enables quicker and easier software development and validation for smart camera and automated driving applications used in passenger, commercial, and off-road vehicles. “Software development and delivery has been…
Torizon platform now available for IoT Linux devices
Toradex is extending its Torizon operating system for use as a full IoT development and operations (DevOps) platform for Linux devices. The operating system will now include free remotely hosted updates, device monitoring features, and a fleet management solution. Torizon enables modern, iterative product development by seamlessly integrating hardware, a Linux OS, development tools, remote…
Introduction of Linux
Bell Lab laboratories developed advanced OS with highly feature written in C language named UNIX operating system. In 1990, PC were fully powered by UNIX and well featured but not fully open source, then in the year 1991, Linus Torvalds introduced an operating system called Linux which is member of large family UNIX-like OS. Linux is fully customizable free operating system. Due to advent open source feature of Linux, everyone can download the source code of Linux and modify it. It is supported any hardware components. Linux uses only POSIX (Portable Operating System Interface Standards) of UNIX, which is standards specified by IEEE computer society for maintaining compability between OS.
Embedded Linux Tutorial & Basics
1.1) System A system is a set of different elements, which are interconnected inside a boundary, and may have abilities of input processing and output. Fig. 1: Image Illustrating System by Comparison to Solar System An example of system: Solar System itself is a good example of a system. Here the elements are…
Embedded Linux : Understanding the embedded linux
Linux is one of the few, ever expanding endeavors developed in the 20th century. Obvious or not, it has continuously cranked itself up to reach new horizons since its humble beginnings in 1991. A more than 50 year old market segment, the embedded systems, which encompasses a vast domain of electronic products ranging from little wristwatch cameras, to huge distributed systems like telecom switches, has been charmed by the frills and thrills of Linux and has deeply benefitted from the same. Embedded Systems are everywhere, ranging from small control applications which require small microcontrollers to massive parallel processors which have colossal memory requirements. Mobile phones, Inverters, microwaves, PDAs, you name it, and you might find an embedded system at its essential core.
Introduction to LINUX
Twenty years ago, on August 25, 1991, a computer science student Linus Torvalds made a quaint announcement on the network that he’d been doing an operating system as a hobby for the 386(486) AT clones and now that he had good success in it, he would like to invite suggestions on what it should have and what not. Little did he know back then that he had just put the final piece of the big jigsaw puzzle called ‘Free Software Movement’ into its right place, Linux. By 1991, the world was witnessing an era of unprecedented hardware growth with more powerful computers being developed. The scenario was however poor on the software development front. By virtue of a highly successful marketing strategy, DOS reigned supreme and was the mainstay of almost every computer in all corners of the world.