Blasphemy! Open source software is the greatest thing that has ever happened to the industry! It’s free! Why on Earth would we ever want to avoid open source software? This may surprise some readers but despite our love for “open source” and “free software”, there are several reasons that developers should consider that justify avoiding … Continue reading 7 Reasons to Avoid Open Source Software
Category: RTOS
Tools – The RTOS Selection KT Marix
Selecting the right RTOS for a project can be tricky business. Engineers often come to the table with predisposed opinions that can cloud their judgment and pull them in a direction that isn’t optimal. Let’s face it, many of us have been involved in an engineering decision where the choice was dictated by the loudest … Continue reading Tools – The RTOS Selection KT Marix
Tips and Tricks – 7 Reasons to Choose an RTOS
The use of an RTOS or a bare metal scheduler is a popular topic to debate among embedded system developers. On the bare metal side, developers argue they can use a combination of priority based interrupts and timers to get equivalent behavior with better performance and memory footprint. The RTOS side argues ease of scheduling … Continue reading Tips and Tricks – 7 Reasons to Choose an RTOS