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

Installing FreeRTOS and SystemView

This section provides instructions for installing FreeRTOS and SystemView in an IDE-project.

The instructions are presented in the following subsections:

Overview
The installation process
Creating the IDE-project
Installing FreeRTOS
Writing and running a FreeRTOS program
Installing SystemView

Overview

We’ll create a FreeRTOS project and install the current version of FreeRTOS (current as of the time of writing this appendix). This requires manually installing FreeRTOS. The present section explains why we’re manually installing FreeRTOS, and not using the IDE to generate the FreeRTOS installation. In addition, an overview is provided for our process of installing FreeRTOS.

The easiest way to create a FreeRTOS project is to use STM32CubeIDE to create the project and generate the FreeRTOS installation. However, that FreeRTOS installation has significant limitations. The biggest...