Advanced Topics on Embedded Computing

Abstract

This special issue consists of five manuscripts selected from the 2009 International Conference on Embedded Computing. All the papers took further review after extension. The first paper in this special issue is “A New Implementation Method of Timer for Periodic Tasks” by Zhigang Gao, Peifeng Zhang, Guojun Dai [1]. This work presents a new implementation of timer method for periodic tasks in real-time systems, called S-Method, which takes O (n) time overhead. While the traditional methods take O (