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A Study on the Hardware Architecture for Silicon RTOS  

Song, Moon-Vin (Dept. of Electronic Eng., Kyung Hee University)
Chung, Yun-Mo (Dept. of Electronic Eng., Kyung Hee University)
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Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SD / v.43, no.11, 2006 , pp. 19-25 More about this Journal
Abstract
The fast processing ability of an RTOS (Real Time Operating System) is one of important factors in determining the performance of embedded systems. With the development of multimedia and telecommunication technology, the higher level of performance environments is required. Moreover there is some difficulty in improving the performance of an RTOS which is based on a microprocessor. In this paper, we propose a hardware architecture to implement some functions of uC/OS-II as a target RTOS for the purpose of its performance improvement. The proposed architecture for uC/OS-II is implemented and analyzed with the performance comparison.
Keywords
RTOS; Silicon; uC/OS-II; Hardware;
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