What is Real-Time? Until now, you cared only for the correctness of your code, and any computation performed was considered equally useful.. “Real-Time” adds the timeliness requirement, where the ...

When do you need to use a real-time operating system (RTOS) for an embedded project? What does it bring to the table, and what are the costs? Fortunately there are strict technical definitions, whi… ...

What I was taught is that hard real time has a bounded response time: we are always able to respond to an event in less than some specified time T. It doesn't mean fast, just that there is a hard ...

Examples include rocket propulsion control systems, flight response systems and nuclear reactors. Soft real-time systems are used when missing a deadline occasionally is acceptable, such as when there ...