Reserving memory for specific purposes. At startup, operating systems and applications reserve fixed amounts of memory (RAM) and may allocate more as needed. Although a virtual memory function ...

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 ...

As we see this through Daniel’s eyes, implementation details regarding addressing often reveal fundamental design constraints ...

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 ...

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 ...

CISA today warned that IoT and OT security flaws known as BadAlloc impact BlackBerry's QNX Real Time Operating System (RTOS) used by critical infrastructure organizations BadAlloc is a collection of ...

The Unix operating system is one of computing's most significant technologies, providing the framework that the familiar Linux and Mac OS X operating systems were developed on. Unix can be a viable ...

While you may have been distracted by Apple’s new product releases and interesting operating system enhancements, the company also quietly a powerful new security feature this week: Memory Integrity ...

Reserving memory moment to moment, as needed, without having to reserve a fixed amount ahead of time. Modern operating systems perform dynamic memory allocation for their own use. They may also ...