On the Design and Development of a Customizable Embedded Operating System

The design and development of operating systems has to reflect numerous constraints predefined by an application domain. This domain consists, among others, of application software at the top and the computer hardware at the bottom, thus with the operating system in between “a rock and a hard place”. There are many application domains with no single operating-system solution for all or even a subset of them. Most crucial in this setting are non-functional properties that are ingredient parts of single components or crosscut in the extreme case the entire system software. These properties limit component reusability and impair software maintenance. The paper deals with this issue in the scope of operating systems for the embedded-systems domain.

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