Compares C, Ada, Java, for flaws and strengths in realtime programming, embedded software, built-in support for multithreading; text, code samples. Embedded.com.

Prudence seems the watchword for adopting asynchronous design practices. [Embedded.com]

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Explains why constant objects are not as useful as some people would like them to be.

Tutorial to get OS up and running on new hardware; the first task when using any new OS. By Anthony J. Massa, Embedded.com.

Using several features of the language, this article presents a framework for resource allocation which is temporally deterministic, provides for callback, provides memory pools, and can provide for deadlock prevention.

An introduction to USB development.

An on-line union of three premier embedded systems development information sources. All items archived with free, full-text access.

Presents insights on choosing between symbolic constants as either enumeration constants or constant objects.

Gives an introduction to priority inversion and shows a pair of techniques to avoid them.