Top ten milestones in embedded 2012
Number 8: Xilinx acquires Petalogix, meanwhile coming out with the Zynq FPGA
The Zynq has twin Cortex-A9 cores. Zynq is interesting in that it's less about a massive FPGA and more about cores with some configurable logic. And Petalogix has a great demo showing interrupt latency on each core, one running FreeRTOS and the other Linux. Although Linux is a wonderful OS, it isn't an RTOS replacement:
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