Everything about Embedded operating system

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: Embedded operating systemA 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: Architecture of the Graphics System for Embedded Real-Time Operating SystemsInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: Building Embedded Linux SystemsThe most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: MANTIS OS: An Embedded Multithreaded Operating System for Wireless Micro Sensor PlatformsCited 232 times
5. Go sideways: List of operating systemsA closely related topic
6. Go sideways: Zephyr (operating system)A closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• MANTIS OS: An Embedded Multithreaded Operating System for Wireless Micro Sensor Platforms

  Shah Bhatti, James Carlson, Hui Dai · 2005 · Mobile Networks and Applications · 232 citations

• SOA distributed operating system for managing embedded devices in home and building automation

  A. Sleman, R. Moeller · 2011 · IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics · 38 citations

• VRTX: A Real-Time Operating System for Embedded Microprocessor Applications

  James Ready · 1986 · IEEE Micro · 32 citations

• Energy macromodeling of embedded operating systems

  T. K. Tan, A. Raghunathan, N. K. Jha · 2005 · ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems · 32 citations

• Tardis: Coverage-Guided Embedded Operating System Fuzzing

  Yuheng Shen, Yiru Xu, Hao Sun · 2022 · IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems · 23 citations

• Energy-optimizing source code transformations for operating system-driven embedded software

  Yunsi Fei, Srivaths Ravi, Anand Raghunathan · 2007 · ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems · 23 citations

• Controlled Owicki-Gries Concurrency: Reasoning about the Preemptible eChronos Embedded Operating System

  June Andronick, Corey Lewis, Carroll Morgan · 2015 · Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science · 17 citations

• ECG: Augmenting Embedded Operating System Fuzzing via LLM-Based Corpus Generation

  Qiang Zhang, Yuheng Shen, Jianzhong Liu · 2024 · IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems · 15 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• Architecture of the Graphics System for Embedded Real-Time Operating Systems

  Alexander Giatsintov, Kirill Mamrosenko, Pavel Bazhenov · 2023 · Tsinghua Science and Technology · 9 citations

• Effects of operating parameters on the performance of an embedded two-piston compressor system for green hydrogen

  Yi Guo, Qi Wang, Junhao Cao · 2024 · Renewable Energy · 9 citations

• A Low-Latency Optimization of a Rust-Based Secure Operating System for Embedded Devices

  Ioana Culic, Alexandru Vochescu, Alexandru Radovici · 2022 · Sensors · 8 citations

• Conceptual Thoughts on Biointelligent Embedded Systems and Operating Systems Architecture

  Arber Shoshi, Robert Miehe, Thomas Bauernhansl · 2023 · Procedia Computer Science · 8 citations

• Overview of Embedded Rust Operating Systems and Frameworks

  Thibaut Vandervelden, Ruben De Smet, Diana Deac · 2024 · Sensors · 7 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• Building Embedded Linux SystemsKarim Yaghmour, Jon Masters · 2003
• Exploring BeagleBoneDerek Molloy · 2014
• TinyOS ProgrammingPhilip Levis · 2009
• 📕Real-time embedded systemsIvan Cibrario Bertolotti · 2012
• 📕The embedded operating system projectRoy Harold Campbell · 1984
• 📕Windows Embedded CE 6.0 fundamentalsS. A. Pavlov · 2008
• Embedded Operating SystemsAlan Holt, Chi-Yu Huang · 2014
• Linux For Embedded And Realtime ApplicationsDoug Abbott · 2003

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