Using the FreeRTOS Real Time Kernel - a Practical Guide - Cortex M3 Edition (FreeRTOS tutorial books) - Softcover

Richard Barry

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1446170306 ISBN 13: 9781446170304

Synopsis

FreeRTOS is a truly free (even for commercial applications) small footprint, portable, preemptive, open source, real time kernel that has been designed specifically for use on embedded microcontrollers. With more than 77,500 downloads during 2009 - FreeRTOS has become one of the most popular real time kernels available. This book is a concise, step by step, 'hands on' tutorial guide to using the FreeRTOS real time kernel. It describes both general multitasking embedded programming concepts and FreeRTOS specifics by presenting and explaining numerous examples that are written using the FreeRTOS API. Full source code for all the examples is provided in an accompanying .zip file. The generic Cortex M3 edition includes sixteen examples. Currently these are provided as IAR projects that target the Luminary Micro/TI Stellaris family of microcontrollers. Projects for other microcontrollers and compilers will follow shortly and can be requested. There is also a separate edition of the book that specifically targets the NXP LPC17xx Cortex M3 microcontroller. A chapter is included that describes FreeRTOS-MPU - the FreeRTOS Cortex M3 port that includes integrated Memory Protection Unit (MPU) support (please note the example projects do not make use of the MPU). This book is a step by step 'hands on' guide. It does not contain a complete API reference. An API reference manual is available in a separate document.

Edition details

• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1446170306
• ISBN 13: 9781446170304
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 195