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14/10/26

What Is a Real-Time Embedded System? Hard, Firm and Soft Deadlines Explained

A clear introduction to real-time embedded systems: what makes timing part of correctness, how hard, firm and soft…

05/10/26

Contract-Based Scheduling Explained: Making Embedded Software Composable

How scheduling contracts work: minimum budgets and periods, online negotiation and admission control, spare-capacity distribution and server-based enforcement,…

26/09/26

Rate Monotonic vs Earliest Deadline First: A Practical Comparison

A practical comparison of Rate Monotonic and EDF scheduling covering the Liu and Layland bound, EDF optimality, exact…

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Real-Time Embedded Vision: Timing Guarantees for Video Analytics at the Edge

How to treat an edge video analytics pipeline as a real-time system: budgeting capture, ISP, NPU inference and actuation, handling firm frame deadlines, accelerator…