The performance and energy consumption of three embedded real-time operating systems

CASES 2001 - Proceedings of the 2001 International Conference on Compilers, Architecture, and Synthesis for Embedded Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2001, Pages 203-210

  Baynes, Kathleen ^a   Collins, Chris ^a   Fiterman, Eric ^a   Ganesh, Brinda ^a   Kohout, Paul ^a   Smit, Christine ^a   Zhang, Tiebing ^a   Jacob, Bruce ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS; ENERGY UTILIZATION; MICROCONTROLLERS; PROGRAM COMPILERS; REAL TIME SYSTEMS;

ARCHITECTURAL MODELING; CORE PROCESSORS; EMBEDDED APPLICATION; EMBEDDED REAL TIME OPERATING SYSTEM; EXECUTION-DRIVEN SIMULATION; INDUSTRIAL STRENGTH; PUBLIC DOMAINS; SIMULATION ENVIRONMENT;

EMBEDDED SYSTEMS;

EID: 84943156864     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/502217.502253     Document Type: Conference Paper

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