Gain the practical skills and insights you need to supercharge your embedded engineering journey by working with over 20 example programs

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
• All formats include a free PDF and an invitation to the Embedded System Professionals community

Book Description

This updated edition of Hands-On RTOS with Microcontrollers is packed with cutting-edge content to help you expand your skills and stay ahead of the curve with embedded systems development. Written by senior engineers with decades of experience in cybersecurity, operating systems (OSs), and embedded systems, it covers the role of real-time OSs in today’s time-critical applications and FreeRTOS with its key capabilities and APIs. You’ll find a detailed overview of system design (memory management), project design (MCU, IDE, and RTOS APIs), and hands-on system use as well as the system platform, dev-boards with an MCU and a debug probe, and development tools (IDE, build system, and source-code debugging). This second edition teaches you how to implement over 20 real-world embedded applications with the latest FreeRTOS features and how to optimize your code with dynamic analysis. The chapters include example programs on GitHub with detailed instructions. You’ll 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 always have ample resources for system development. By the end of this book, you’ll have the hands-on skills to design, build, and optimize embedded applications using FreeRTOS, dev-boards, and modern debugging tools.

What you will learn

• Understand RTOS use cases, and decide when (and when not) to use real-time OS
• Utilize the 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, USB, and DMA by using drivers and ISRs
• Enhance interface architecture with a command queue for optimized 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.