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Embedded RTOS Design

Insights and Implementation

  • 1st Edition - December 3, 2020
  • Latest edition
  • Author: Colin Walls
  • Language: English

Embedded RTOS Design: Insights and Implementation combines explanations of RTOS concepts with detailed, practical implementation. It gives a detailed description of the implement… Read more

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Description

Embedded RTOS Design: Insights and Implementation combines explanations of RTOS concepts with detailed, practical implementation. It gives a detailed description of the implementation of a basic real-time kernel designed to be limited in scope and simple to understand, which could be used for a real design of modest complexity. The kernel features upward-compatibility to a commercial real-time operating system: Nucleus RTOS. Code is provided which can be used without restriction.

Gain practical information on:

  • Scheduling, preemption, and interrupts

  • Information flow (queues, semaphores, etc.) and how they work

  • Signaling between tasks (signals, events, etc.)

  • Memory management (Where does each task get its stack from? What happens if the stack overflows?)

  • The CPU context: storage and retrieval after a context switch

With this book you will be able to:

  • Utilize a basic real-time kernel to develop your own prototype

  • Design RTOS features

  • Understand the facilities of a commercial RTOS

Key features

  • Explains the principles of RTOS and shows their practical implementation
  • Demonstrates how to prototype a real-time design
  • Code is fully available for free use

Readership

Embedded systems engineers, computer engineers, software developers, computer engineering undergraduates and graduates

Table of contents

1. Program structure and real time

2. Multitasking and Scheduling

3. RTOS Services and Facilities

4. Nucleus SE

5. The Scheduler

6. Tasks

7. Partition Memory

8. Signals

9. Event Flag Groups

10. Semaphores

11. Mailboxes

12. Queues

13. Pipes

14. System Time

15. Application Timers

16. Interrupts in Nucleus SE

17. Nucleus SE Initialization and Start-up

18. Diagnostics and Error Checking

19. Unimplemented Facilities and Compatibility

20. Using Nucleus SE

21. Nucleus SE Reference Information

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: December 4, 2020
  • Language: English

About the author

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Colin Walls

Colin Walls has over forty years' experience in the electronics industry, largely involved with embedded software - very much a pioneer in this specialty. He has been a frequent presenter at conferences and seminars including: • Embedded Systems Conference, San Jose and Boston • Embedded World, Nuremberg • Arm Tech Con, California • Mentor events world-wide • Numerous partner events Colin has authored a great many technical articles and one of the first books on embedded software ["Programming Dedicated Microprocessors"; Macmillan Education, 1986]. His most recent publication is "Embedded Software: The Works" [2nd edition; Newnes, 2012], which addresses a wide range of embedded software topics. He is an embedded software technologist with Mentor, a Siemens business, and maintains a blog at http://blogs.mentor.com/colinwalls. Colin is based in the UK, where he lives with his family. Away from work, his main interests are photography, reading/writing, and food and drink.
Affiliations and expertise
Mentor, a Siemens business, Newbury, UK

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