An RTOS is a Real-Time Operating System, a type of operating system that is designed to satisfy, possibly hard or firm, timing constraints. An RTOS is most likely to be used in in verifiable or safety critical systems. Such systems arise most frequently in the medical, automotive and defense industries
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What is an Operating System (with respect to embedded systems)?
I have seen Operating Systems described as "the software that controls the hardware". I don't understand what it really is however.
For example, if we are writing code for a calculator, if we write the code to implement the interface between the…
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blocking Inter task communication in RTOS
I'm writing a module which contains a task with the highest priority and it should be in blocking until it receives a message from an other task the start doing its duty as a highest priority task. It uses mailbox mechanism for signaling .
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How to find memory leaks in a task in RTOS?
i have a task in RTOS and inside task i have allocated memory for example 5 times and freed memory 3 times, but how to find memory leak without using external tools?
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Advantages of RTOS rather than single sequential programs
What are the advantages of having a multi-tasking program with RTOS support rather than a single sequential program?
Are there any disadvantages?
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Implement a state machine over an RTOS
I am beginner and I am little bit confused about the difference between a task in RTOS and state machines. let's take an example of state machine I am willing to implement:
enum states{
READY_STATE
RUNNING_STATE
BLOCKED_STATE
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