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

Chapter 5: Implementing the super-loop

Chapter 5 presents a super-loop example-program, and how to create it.

The MCU: STM32F767ZI

Book: Mastering STM32, second edition. C. Noviello, 2022
User manual: Description of STM32F7 HAL and low-layer drivers. Document ID: UM1905
User guide: STM32CubeMX for STM32 configuration and initialization, C code generation. Document ID: UM1718

Arm Cortex-M7

Application note: ARM Cortex-M Programming Guide to Memory Barrier Instructions. Document ID: Application Note 321
Knowledge base article: ARM: Cortex-M3/M4 Interrupts Happening Twice?. Article ID: KA003795. (Information on memory barriers.). https://developer.arm.com/documentation/ka003795/latest
Book: The Definitive Guide to ARM Cortex-M3 and Cortex-M4 Processors, third edition. J. Yiu. 2014
Reference manual: ARMv7-M Architecture Reference Manual. Document ID: ARM DDI 0403E.b
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