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Hands-On RTOS with Microcontrollers

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

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2025
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781803237725
Length 570 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Jim Yuill is a senior computer-systems engineer, with 30 years of experience. He has worked in operating-systems development, cyber-security R&D, network systems-programming, and university teaching. He has a PhD in computer science, with a thesis in cyber security, which is highly cited.
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Penn Linder is a Senior Electrical Engineer at IVEK Corporation, a manufacturer of industrial pumps and controllers. He has had a passion for embedded systems since taking his first embedded controllers' class at Penn State University in 1995. He followed his passion by working for various companies that allowed him to design both hardware and software for products using embedded systems. Some of the products he has worked on include lighting controls, medical devices, and industrial automation equipment. His early years were spent cranking out bare-metal assembly code for 8-bit MCUs. In his later years, he wrote software using C and FreeRTOS for 32-bit ARM Cortex-M processors.
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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

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A

analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) 5, 26, 69

application-specific integrated component (ASIC) 8

ARM Cortex-M processors 71

ARM FreeRTOS firmware stack 17

assertions

assert_param() 462

configAssert() 462, 463

using, for debugging FreeRTOS 462

asymmetric multi-processing 441

B

bare-metal drivers 341

bare-metal firmware 9

binary semaphores 191, 192

synchronization via 192-196

buffer-based driver 293

performance analysis 298-300

uartPrintOutTask 294

USART2_IRQHandler 295-297

with DMA 313-315

C

CDC_Transmit_FS() 349

central processing unit (CPU) 25

C function 151

command-execution task 392-395

command queue

architecture 390, 391

code, using 400, 401

components 387

creating 386

deciding 389, 390

LEDs’ brightness functions 387-389

command queue, architecture

command-execution task 392-395

frame decoding 395-398

USB VCP driver 399

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Jim Yuill is a senior computer-systems engineer, with 30 years of experience. He has worked in operating-systems development, cyber-security R&D, network systems-programming, and university teaching. He has a PhD in computer science, with a thesis in cyber security, which is highly cited.
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Penn Linder is a Senior Electrical Engineer at IVEK Corporation, a manufacturer of industrial pumps and controllers. He has had a passion for embedded systems since taking his first embedded controllers' class at Penn State University in 1995. He followed his passion by working for various companies that allowed him to design both hardware and software for products using embedded systems. Some of the products he has worked on include lighting controls, medical devices, and industrial automation equipment. His early years were spent cranking out bare-metal assembly code for 8-bit MCUs. In his later years, he wrote software using C and FreeRTOS for 32-bit ARM Cortex-M processors.
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