This series on how to get started using Embedded Linux is on my Open Mike blog. This installment discusses development models. There are two different models of Embedded Linux development: ...

Although Intel provides the greatest user base for Linux, many other architectures are supported. These include ARM, MIPS, PowerPC, Alpha, SPARC and Hitachi. The availability of cheap x86 hardware ...

For those wanting to try Linux on a RISC-V CPU, Microsemi and SiFive have created an evaluation board with a 1GHz 64bit RISC-V CPU – called HiFive Unleashed Expansion Board. “Plugged into HiFive ...

A US company has created a modular embedded Linux board which it hopes will be used across the entire product development cycle from evaluation, development, prototyping to finish product. Habey has ...

A new Linux based embedded board has been created called the SCADA which is powered by a Texas Instruments ARM cortex-A8 1-Ghz processor and measures just 110mm X 100mm in size. SCADA has been ...

There are dozens of open source development boards available in the market; in this column we look at ten of the more popular offerings. Open source is one of the most interesting technological topics ...

Most of the more powerful compact form-factor single-board computers (SBCs) run one of the popular Linux distributions designed for use with these embedded boards. While there isn’t a specific version ...

This article is sponsored by Technologic Systems. Here are some tips compiled from our seasoned engineers on what they wish they'd known about embedded Linux back when they were "newbs". Newcomers and ...

The Linux kernel provides support for memory management, interprocess communication mechanisms, interrupt management, and TCP / IP networking. The directory structure separates architecture-dependent ...

JeVois is a small, open-source, smart machine vision camera that was funded on Kickstarter in early 2017. I backed it because cameras that embed machine vision elements are steadily growing more ...