Why external consistency is so important for a hard real-time database. Maintaining a transaction timeline. The impact of a transaction-scheduling policy. A real-time database-management system (DMBS) ...

Architecture Analysis and Design Language (AADL) is a standardised modelling language widely used to describe and analyse the architectures of embedded real-time systems. AADL provides a formal ...

A real-time system must respect time constraints to ensure that its execution makes functional sense. It must be deterministic, ensuring the execution of system processes a priori. After analyzing the ...

An RTOS is a specialized operating system designed to handle time-critical tasks with precision and reliability. Unlike general-purpose operating systems like Windows or macOS, an RTOS is built to ...

In 1962, sci-fi writer Arthur C. Clarke famously said, "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." That year, the Atlas computer—the fastest in the world at the ...

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Even with improved network technologies, managing the quality of service (QoS) in real-time communication (RTC) systems has been challenging. Traditional methods often fall short in swiftly adapting ...

This fifth lesson on RTOS finally addresses the real-time aspect of the “Real-Time Operating System” name. Specifically, in the video lesson 26, you add a preemptive, priority-based scheduler to the ...

The actual definition of real-time database versus the abused interpretation used by marketers of real fast database systems. The interplay of transient and persistent memory, and hard and soft ...

If you listen to enough conference talks, vendor pitches, and analyst pronouncements, you can be forgiven for assuming every organization on the planet now can sense and respond, in real time, to ...

I'm not an industrial hygienist and I don't claim to be one. However, I've spent nearly 30 years in the business of gas detection and have worked closely with the industrial hygiene community for most ...