You're reading from Hands-On RTOS with Microcontrollers Create high-performance, real-time embedded systems using FreeRTOS, STM32 MCUs, and SEGGER debug tools

Product type Paperback

Published in Sep 2025

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781803237725

Length 570 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

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Operating Systems

Authors (2):

Jim Yuill

Penn Linder

Preface

1. Part 1: Introduction to RTOSes, the Dev-Board, and Tools

2. Introducing Real-Time Systems FREE CHAPTER

3. Introducing the Development Board

4. Introducing the Development-Tools

5. Understanding Super-Loops

6. Implementing the Super-Loop

7. Part 2: The FreeRTOS Scheduler, Tasks, and Primary APIs

8. Understanding RTOS Tasks

9. Running the FreeRTOS Scheduler

10. Protecting Data and Synchronizing Tasks

11. Intertask Communication

12. Part 3: Using FreeRTOS to Build Systems

13. Drivers and ISRs

14. More Efficient Drivers and ISRs

15. Sharing Hardware Peripherals among Tasks

16. Creating Loose Coupling with Queues

17. Part 4: System Design and Troubleshooting

18. FreeRTOS Memory Management

19. Multi-Processor and Multi-Core Systems

20. Troubleshooting Tips and Next Steps

21. Part 5: Reference Information and FreeRTOS Installation

22. Other Books You May Enjoy

23. Index

Appendix A: Tools Quick-Reference

1. Appendix B: Reference Information

2. Appendix C: Creating FreeRTOS Projects, and Installing FreeRTOS

STM32CubeIDE

The IDE workspace and projects

A workspace consists of a set of projects.
A project is a directory that contains one or more programs.
For each chapter that has example programs, the chapter’s programs are put in an IDE project. We’ll refer to these IDE-projects as chapter-projects.
For the chapter-projects, their project-directories are stored in the book’s code-repository: https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Hands-On-RTOS-with-Microcontrollers-Second-Edition
The example-programs’ workspace holds the chapter-projects, e.g., at C:\projects\packtBookRTOS2E.
The IDE’s prompt to select a workspace is at: File | "Switch Workspace” | Other…
In the example-programs’ workspace, the chapter-projects are imported from the code-repository.
The IDE’s Project Explorer shows the chapter-projects.