The key concepts of RTOS schedulers were covered in a previous article. Here we will look at the facilities offered by Nucleus RTOS and, in much more detail, those provided by Nucleus SE. Since ...

Real-Time Operating Systems (RTOS) have been extremely popular in recent years. Most engineers will select an RTOS very early on in the design cycle, sometimes even before requirements have been ...

Beyond task scheduling and communication, an RTOS will undoubtedly include functionality – API calls – to control tasks in a selection of ways. We can look at some of the possibilities. Task Creation ...

View the slideshow demonstrates in seven steps the process of switching from a lower priority task, called TaskA, to a higher priority task, called TaskB. These slides demonstrate the concepts ...

Atomthreads is a compact open-source RTOS that targets microcontroller platforms that need task scheduling but not higher-level services such as Internet Protocol (IP) network stacks or file systems.

How to verify RTOS best practices in runtime. How visual trace diagnostics can be used to analyze the software design and detect deviations from best practices. What is priority inheritance? Using a ...