Editor's Note: Embedded Systems Architecture, 2nd Edition, is a practical and technical guide to understanding the components that make up an embedded system’s architecture. Offering detailed ...

Many DSP systems are multirate systems. This means there are multiple tasks in the DSP system running at different periodic rates. Multirate DSP systems can be managed using nonpreemptive as well as ...

Sporadic events are the bugaboo of many real-time systems. Finding a way to manage aperiodic behavior can spell the difference between system failure and system success. This article presents the ...