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

Next steps

In this final chapter, we covered a few tips that will help smooth out some of the bumps in the road on your RTOS journey.

Well, that’s it, folks! We hope you’ve enjoyed this hands-on introduction to developing real-time embedded systems using FreeRTOS.

Assuming you’ve already run the book’s example-programs, a good next-step in mastering FreeRTOS is to work through Richard Barry’s book, Mastering the FreeRTOS Real-Time Kernel. (It is freely available at FreeRTOS.org). It presents further details about FreeRTOS, with examples for each of the APIs.

To experiment with FreeRTOS on the book’s dev-board, you’ll need an IDE-project with FreeRTOS installed on it. How to create such an IDE-project is described in Appendix C, Creating FreeRTOS Projects, and Installing FreeRTOS. Among the book’s example-programs, there is an IDE-project FreeRTOS_project, and FreeRTOS is installed on it. Appendix C describes how FreeRTOS_project...