A practical guide with over 20 example programs designed to provide skills and insights to supercharge your embedded engineering journey All formats include a free PDF and an invitation to the Embedded System Professionals community

Key Features

• Understand and master RTOS concepts using the powerful STM32 platform
• Strengthen your embedded programming skills for real-world applications
• Explore advanced RTOS techniques to unlock innovative embedded solutions

Book Description

Want to stay ahead of the curve with embedded systems development? The updated edition of Hands-On RTOS with Microcontrollers is packed with cutting-edge content to up your skills. It contains everything you need to know about real-time operating systems, how they work, and why they’re essential for today’s time-critical applications; learn about FreeRTOS and its primary capabilities and APIs. You’ll find a detailed overview of system-design topics such as memory management, project-design topics (MCU, IDE, and RTOS API), and hands-on system use, as well as the system platform, dev-board with an MCU and debug-probe, and development tools (IDE, build system, source-code debugging). The new edition includes more than 20 real-world embedded applications showcasing the latest features of FreeRTOS, teaching you how to implement them in your projects, and exploring how to optimize your code with dynamic analysis. It also provides example programs on a GitHub repo for you to explore with detailed instructions. You’ll learn how to create and install your own FreeRTOS system on the dev-board, and set up an IDE project with debugging tools. With dozens of reference manuals listed, you’ll never be short on resources for system development. Stay ahead of the curve — get your second edition of Hands-On RTOS with Microcontrollers today!

What you will learn

• Understand RTOS, use-cases, and decide when to (and not to) use real-time OS
• Utilize FreeRTOS scheduler to create, start, and monitor task states
• Improve task signaling and communication using queues, semaphores, and mutexes
• Streamline task data transfer with queues and notifications
• Upgrade peripheral communication via UART using drivers and ISRs
• Enhance interface architecture with a command queue for better system control
• Maximize FreeRTOS memory management with trade-off insights

Who this book is for

This book is for systems programmers, embedded systems engineers, and software developers who want to learn about Real-Time Operating Systems (RTOS) and how to use FreeRTOS in their embedded system design. A basic understanding of the C programming language, embedded systems, and microcontrollers is assumed. The book also includes hardware tutorials for systems programmers.