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 ...

Processor speed and memory size are increasing day-by-day several times faster than disk speed. The difference between these two identifies that disk I/O performance could become a very important ...

Scheduling is a process of allocating available resources to the submitted requests. The main function of scheduling is to optimize the resource utilization and response time. Cloud is a new ...

Many market sectors, such as financial trading, defense, industry automation and gaming, long have had a need for low latencies and deterministic response time. Traditionally, custom-built hardware ...