The goal of this project was to build a superior environment for a real time system laboratory that would allow users to run Windows and Linux embedded application development tools concurrently on a single computer. These requirements were dictated by real-time system applications which are increasingly being implemented on asymmetric dual-core processors running different operating systems. A...

As computer science continues to move toward a more pragmatic market driven discipline, some of the traditional core topics in computing have become less popular. Atrisk topics include compilers, file organizations, and operating systems. Viewed collectively, it appears that courses that either deal with the internal working of computers or courses that require system programming are being syst...

The Quality of Service (QoS) concept is of central importance in the context of communication protocols for multimedia systems. Generally, multimedia systems comprise the following functional units: networks, end-to-end protocols, data management systems, applications, human-computer interfaces, and operating systems. Obviously, the entire system is influencing QoS that is visible to human user...

The current direction of computer systems is increasingly moving away from centralised system and moving towards distributed sets of workstations and personal computers connected by a network, known as distributed systems. This has led to the development of specialised operating systems to take full advantage of the resource sharing potential that a distributed system provides. The specialised ...

Desktop computers are often compromised by the interaction of untrusted data and buggy software. To address this problem, we present Apiary, a system that provides transparent application fault containment while retaining the ease of use of a traditional integrated desktop environment. Apiary accomplishes this with three key mechanisms. It isolates applications in containers that integrate in a...

Not too long ago real time audio synthesis and signal processing used to be restricted to dedicated hardware. In the mid-nineties software synthesizers entered the field of desktop computing. At the same time software for real-time computer music systems moved from dedicated DSP’s to desktop computers with diverging operating systems. PD (Pure Data) is a computer music systems that showed a gre...

The higher performance comes from new technologies, including new processors, faster 16K RAM semiconductor memories, and a new operating system. If p 1000 COMPUTER SYSTEMS, first introduced llin late 1976,1 are designed to give the user a choice of preconfigured nucleus systems that are easy to use, easily adapted to user applications, accurately specified, and easily supported and maintained. ...

The higher performance comes from new technologies, including new processors, faster 16K RAM semiconductor memories, and a new operating system. If p 1000 COMPUTER SYSTEMS, first introduced llin late 1976,1 are designed to give the user a choice of preconfigured nucleus systems that are easy to use, easily adapted to user applications, accurately specified, and easily supported and maintained. ...

This paper looks to investigate how Android operating system manages power on a relatively small platform such as a mobile phone or a tablet. The aim of this document is to further find the differences that exist in the design of Android power management modules as compared to the parent kernel from Linux. We will investigate to check if platforms with smaller batteries like mobile phones requi...