In this chapter, you were presented a new set of tools. I will honestly admit that these tools are not the ones used most often in an embedded environment, but they've been introduced in order to offer another point of view to the embedded development environment. This chapter tried to explain to developers that there is more to the embedded world then just development and the tools that help with these tasks. In most cases, the adjacent components are the ones that could inspire and influence the development process the most.

In the next chapter, a short presentation of the Linux real-time requirements and solutions will be presented. We will emphasize the various features that work alongside Linux in this area. A short presentation of the meta-realtime layer will be offered, and features, such as Preempt-RT and NOHZ, will be discussed. Without further ado, let's proceed to the next chapter. I hope you will enjoy its content.