Embedded Computing Design

Daniel Thompson

Principal Software Engineer

RISCstar Solutions

Daniel Thompson is a principal software engineer at RISCstar Solutions, a software services company that works wherever open-source software meets modern RISC hardware. Daniel has spent his entire career working in and around embedded operating systems, working on everything from RTOS to powerful Linux-based edge servers. He is an experienced trainer and a specialist in using debug and observability tooling to tune real-time systems.

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Analog & Power

Dynamic CPU Power Management with cpufreq and schedutil - Blog

February 23, 2026
Daniel Thompson RISCstar Solutions  

We are looking at how cpufreq and its most sophisticated governor, schedutil, allow the kernel to take advantage of Dynamic Voltage/Frequency Scaling (DVFS).

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