This article introduces Analog Devices' VisualDSP Kernel, better known as the VDK, and its use with the Blackfin processor. VDK is provided as part of the VisualDSP++ tool suite. In this article, we ...

Let’s start by revisiting what we know. We know that Solaris implements a two-layer threads model. The model defines thread abstractions at both the kernel and user layers, and user threads are ...

The kernel dispatcher and associated subsystems provide for the prioritization and scheduling of kernel threads in one of several bundled scheduling classes. The details of the implementation are ...

For most UNIX systems, Linux included, device drivers typically divide the work of processing interrupts into two parts or halves. The first part, the top half, is the familiar interrupt handler, ...