Browsing the tag RTOS
July 13, 2010
Recently I've been considering how useful it would be if the embedded systems world had something similar to Perl's CPAN: an open repository of software modules useful for embedded systems and portable across any RTOS. This was partly triggered by a thread on StackOverflow from someone who wanted to know why he couldn't find a ready-rolled device driver to interface his CPU with a peripheral device. Here… Continue reading
June 28, 2010
Atomthreads now contains support for Raisonance's STM8 compiler RCSTM8. We now support all three available STM8 compilers (Cosmic, IAR and Raisonance) so you can choose to use Atomthreads for a project safe in the knowledge that switching compilers will be pain-free.
The STM8 port contains largely common code with only a small number of conditionally-compiled sections to handle the differences between the compilers. For example functions… Continue reading
May 28, 2010
This week Atomthreads became the first RTOS to support Embedded Workbench (EWSTM8), the STM8 compiler launched by IAR last month. EWSTM8 provides a full professional-grade development and debug environment with support for hardware debuggers including the low cost STM8S Discovery platform. IAR offer a 30-day evaluation of the full version, as well as a time-unlimited 8KB "Kickstart" edition (with a few non-core… Continue reading
February 20, 2010
I have just completed a port of the Atomthreads RTOS to the STM8 microcontroller. Anyone interested in running an RTOS on the STM8 can download the source code from http://atomthreads.com.
This has to be one of the easiest architectures I've ever ported an RTOS to. There are only six CPU registers and only three of these are general purpose registers for compiler use. Continue reading
January 20, 2010
Last week I released Atomthreads, a free RTOS for embedded systems. This project grew from a task scheduler I created some time ago and subsequently extended with semaphore, mutex, queue and timer modules. The result was a lightweight and portable set of kernel sources which can be dropped in to any embedded systems project to add a thread scheduler. It has been useful to me so I decided to open source it in case it proves useful to anyone else. Continue reading
February 27, 2009
One of the convenient features of the eCos real time operating system is the ability to develop and test code on your Linux development PC without downloading to target hardware. This can be done using hardware emulation (via QEMU or VMWare) or just using the built in "Synthetic Target" support. I have documented here the various steps required to install and configure the Synthetic Target on Linux (Ubuntu). As… Continue reading