{"id":638,"date":"2018-09-29T13:43:23","date_gmt":"2018-09-29T20:43:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/imagecraft\/blog\/?p=638"},"modified":"2018-09-29T13:43:23","modified_gmt":"2018-09-29T20:43:23","slug":"repost-of-embedded-market-survey-on-rtos-uses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/imagecraft.com\/?p=638","title":{"rendered":"Repost of “Embedded Market Survey on RTOS Uses”"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The following was written in April 2018 at the “other” blog platform. This has some relevance as we will be officially releasing “JumpStart IoT<\/a>” which includes REIXS, our preemptive multi-priority RTOS.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\n\nIf one examines the 2017 Embedded Market Study Survey: (https:\/\/m.eet.com\/media\/1246048\/2017…rket-study.pdf<\/a>), the use of RTOS vs. no RTOS (page 54) has maintained a fairly consistent 70% (RTOS) to 30% (no RTOS) split for the last 5 years (and probably earlier as well). During the same time frame, the use of open source RTOS increased from 30% to 40%, while the use of commercial RTOS dropped from 40% to 30%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Digging a bit deeper, the most common reason selected for NOT using (a commercial) RTOS was \u201cthe current solution works fine\u201d (AKA inertia, a whopping 68% of the response), with the second most common reason selected being \u201ctoo expensive\u201d (coming in at 35%.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of the reasons to choose an RTOS, whether commercial or open source, the top 4 survey answers were:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

  1. Availability of full source code (39%)<\/li>
  2. No royalties (30%)<\/li>
  3. Compatibility with other software and systems (27%)<\/li>
  4. Availability of tech support (27%)<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    However, the most telling information is perhaps found in the following graphic:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    In other words:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    1. A similar percentage of developers have been using RTOS in the last 5 years<\/li>
    2. The use of open source RTOS has increased somewhat, at the expense of commercial RTOS<\/li>
    3. The main selling points of open source RTOS are the availability of source code and no royalties<\/li>
    4. \u2026 and in the end, open source RTOS really just means embedded Linux and FreeRTOS<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n

      No wonder Amazon turned FreeRTOS into \u201cAmazon FreeRTOS\u201d for an undisclosed sum.In my following posts, I will be discussing the pros and cons of different RTOS, as well as describe ImageCraft\u2019s new RTOS REXIS (Real-time EXecutive for Intelligent Systems), which is a part of our JumpStart Embedded Suite. Stay tuned!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      The following was written in April 2018 at the “other” blog platform. This has some relevance as we will be officially releasing “JumpStart IoT” which includes REIXS, our preemptive multi-priority RTOS. _______________________________________________________________________ If one examines the 2017 Embedded Market Study Survey: (https:\/\/m.eet.com\/media\/1246048\/2017…rket-study.pdf), the use of RTOS vs. no RTOS (page 54) has maintained a fairly consistent 70% (RTOS) to 30% (no RTOS) split for the last 5 years (and probably earlier as well). During the same time frame, the use of open source RTOS increased from 30% to 40%, while the use of commercial RTOS dropped from 40% to 30%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[92,93,145],"class_list":["post-638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-embedded-market","tag-internet-of-things","tag-iot","tag-rtos"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/imagecraft.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/imagecraft.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/imagecraft.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imagecraft.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imagecraft.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/imagecraft.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/imagecraft.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imagecraft.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imagecraft.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}