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

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Table of Contents (27) Chapters

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

Creating IDE-projects for use in learning FreeRTOS

When reading the book, learning can be greatly enhanced by writing prototype programs that use the FreeRTOS APIs. Also, modifying the book’s example-programs can be instructive.

To write FreeRTOS applications, an IDE-project is needed, with FreeRTOS installed. There are two easy ways to obtain FreeRTOS projects:

Technique #1: Copy the example-programs’ IDE-workspace

To make modifications to the book’s example-programs, the example-program’s IDE-workspace can be copied. The workspace has an IDE-project for each chapter with example-programs.

The workspace and its directory are named packtBookRTOS2E (described in chapter 3). The workspace also has folders for common code, used by the IDE-projects. For example, the directory Middleware has source-code for FreeRTOS and SystemView, and the directory is shared by most of the IDE-projects. (A few of the IDE-projects do not use this shared directory...