Every RTOS has its own proprietary API, but some also support the POSIX standards. Here's a look at the parts of POSIX that apply to real-time systems. In today's computing systems, it is becoming ...

The Intel Threading Building Blocks (TBB) library was released this week as open source under the GPLv2 (plus runtime exception) license. The library makes it much easier for programmers to take ...

Solaris implements a two-level threads architecture (see August 1998’s column as well as subsequent columns covering the process model). The two-level model is implemented by abstracting the user ...

The original Portable Operating System Interface for Computing Environments (Posix) standard, first published in 1990, is based on Unix, a well-established technology dating back to the early 1970s.

POSIX, which defines how to call functions common to UNIX-like OSs, is a standard that guarantees that 'it will work in any environment as long as it complies with POSIX.' POSIX has supported the ...

In this paper, we present an extension of the SystemC simulator in order to allow its execution on an IA-64 platform. Our approach relies on adding to SystemC a new user thread package in a simple way ...