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 ...

I recently presented arguments for and against using dynamic memory allocation in C and C++ programs. 1 I do agree that truly safety-critical systems should avoid using dynamic allocation because the ...

Linux processes are made up of text, data, and BSS static segments; in addition, each process has its own stack (which is created with the fork system call). Heap space for Linux tasks are allocated ...

In “Heap data management in limited local memory multi-core processors,” Ke Bai and Aviral Shrivastava in the Compiler Microarchitecture Lab at Arizona State University describe a scheme they ...

Memory management is central to every program. Dangling pointers due to improper memory management procedures are among the banes of C and C++. Automatic free memory management, or garbage collection, ...

Embedded systems such as Internet of Things (IoT) devices and single-board computers possess limited memory and processing power, necessitating the effective management of these constraints. This ...

Poor memory-management practices have been the cause of over 70% of the vulnerabilities found in today’s software. This can lead to a host of problems from programs that fail or degrade to providing ...

The Xen Project, an open source hypervisor hosted at the Linux Foundation, today announced the release of Xen 4.21, which ...

In the world of programming languages it often feels like being stuck in a Groundhog Day-esque loop through purgatory, as effectively the same problems are being solved over and over, with previous ...

MILPITAS, Calif., May 31, 2002 - Xicor, Inc. (Nasdaq/NM: XICO) today announced a three member family of Real Time Clock (RTC) products that combine advanced real time clock/calendar, high density (32K ...