Month: April 2018

Express Logic, maker of the popular ThreadX RTOS, now offers a turnkey support for all the leading cloud providers. These include Alibaba cloud, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Baidu cloud, Google Cloud Platform, IBM Cloud, Microsoft Azure, Oracle Cloud, Tencent, and Xively. This solution is part of the Express Logic X-Ware IoT Platform.  The environment is very small and efficient, offers high performance, and with safety and security in mind.  As with all other ThreadX components, it offers ease of use, and other advanced features to provide best-of-class IoT connectivity for deeply embedded IoT sensors, devices, edge routers, and gateways.

 
The heart of this technology is the ThreadX RTOS. With over 6.2 billion deployments, ThreadX is the world’s most widely deployed RTOS. At the base of ThreadX, is a priority-based preemptive scheduler offering preemption-threshold™ scheduling, optimized context switching, real-time event trace, downloadable memory-protected application modules. This operating system is completely deterministic offering a highly intuitive API. ThreadX is especially useful in environments where small footprint, low overhead, high performance, safety and security are essential. ThreadX is therefore ideally suited for cloud-infrastructure connectivity for end point devices.

The increasing popularity of high-speed 32-bit ARM based micro-controllers allowed Linux to enter the world of embedded devices. That is why the need of debugging its kernel and applications became essential. Since Linux is a true multi-process operating system, it utilizes a Memory Management Unit (MMU) to give each process a separate memory space. The MMU is also responsible for the protection of each process’s memory space against each other.The switching among different processes complicates the debugging, so here I will show you how to debug Linux kernel and applications without interfere processes not been debuggers.