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

Troubleshooting Tips and Next Steps

This chapter provides troubleshooting guidance. It’s intended to help with problems that might be encountered in running the book’s example-programs, and to help with problems you might encounter in developing your own FreeRTOS programs.

There are three parts to the chapter. The first part provides general debugging techniques for FreeRTOS programs. It provides a short summary of the debugging tools and techniques that are presented in the book. In addition, the FreeRTOS feature configAssert() is presented, along with debugging techniques to use with it.

The chapter’s second part provides troubleshooting information for problems that you might encounter with using SEGGER Ozone and SystemView. These include problems from using the tools incorrectly, and from bugs in the tools themselves. The reported bugs are based on our use of the tools and their documentation (this includes our use of older versions of the tools)....