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

The IDE and the example-programs

This section describes the integrated development environment (IDE) that we’ll be using. Instructions are provided for installing and using the IDE, and for installing and using the book’s example-programs.

The following topics are presented:

Introducing STM32CubeIDE
Installing STM32CubeIDE
Installing the book’s example-programs
Using the Project Explorer
Using the editor
Building a project

Introducing STM32CubeIDE

ST provides an IDE for developing programs that run on its STM32 MCUs and dev-boards, including our NUCLEO-F767ZI dev-board. The IDE is named STM32CubeIDE, and we’ll be using it to work with the book’s example-programs. The IDE is freely available, and this section describes how to install it, and how to use it to read the book’s example-programs and build them.

STM32CubeIDE is based on the Eclipse IDE. It is assumed the reader has some...