Freed from the typical difficult and arcane embedded-development tools, users of the Debian GNU/Linux can more efficiently develop applications directly on their embedded systems using native GNU ...

A number of suppliers of embedded software development tools have recently announced that they are “supporting” or even “embracing” embedded Linux. Having been there and done that, I have some news ...

Software industry experts say that the long-awaited move away from “roll your own” embedded operating systems is finally happening. As it begins, however, the great migration is yielding an unexpected ...

The Yocto Project, a working group of the Linux Foundation, is likely something most of you have never heard of. It’s “an open source collaboration project that provides templates, tools and methods ...

Mentor Graphics Corporation announced its agreement with AMD to provide comprehensive embedded Linux® tools for AMD 64-bit ARM®-based processors using the Mentor Embedded Sourcery CodeBench Lite ...

Although Intel provides the greatest user base for Linux, many other architectures are supported. These include ARM, MIPS, PowerPC, Alpha, SPARC and Hitachi. The availability of cheap x86 hardware ...

The 2017 Embedded Linux Conference (ELC) is off to a fine start even as the rain clears up here in Portland, Ore. I don’t often get to sit in on technical sessions at trade shows because of a host of ...

A recent presentation from Metrowerks reminded me of the advantages of integration and modularity. The advantages tend to be obvious but often overlooked when moving from an existing environment to a ...

Military/defense applications development tops the list of target industries in Evans Data Corp.'s new "Embedded Systems Development Survey," which was conducted in January. Developers are targeting ...

Companies selling Linux for embedded devices such as set-top boxes took one step back and one forward Tuesday as Motorola agreed to acquire once-hot Embedix, formerly called Lineo, and Toshiba ...