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Hands-On RTOS with Microcontrollers

You're reading from   Hands-On RTOS with Microcontrollers Building real-time embedded systems using FreeRTOS, STM32 MCUs, and SEGGER debug tools

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781838826734
Length 496 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Brian Amos Brian Amos
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Table of Contents (24) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: Introduction and RTOS Concepts
2. Introducing Real-Time Systems FREE CHAPTER 3. Understanding RTOS Tasks 4. Task Signaling and Communication Mechanisms 5. Section 2: Toolchain Setup
6. Selecting the Right MCU 7. Selecting an IDE 8. Debugging Tools for Real-Time Systems 9. Section 3: RTOS Application Examples
10. The FreeRTOS Scheduler 11. Protecting Data and Synchronizing Tasks 12. Intertask Communication 13. Section 4: Advanced RTOS Techniques
14. Drivers and ISRs 15. Sharing Hardware Peripherals across Tasks 16. Tips for Creating a Well-Abstracted Architecture 17. Creating Loose Coupling with Queues 18. Choosing an RTOS API 19. FreeRTOS Memory Management 20. Multi-Processor and Multi-Core Systems 21. Troubleshooting Tips and Next Steps 22. Assessments 23. Other Books You May Enjoy

Creating a command queue

To see how a queue can be used to keep an architecture loosely coupled, we'll take a look at an application that accepts commands over USB and lights LEDs. While the example application itself is very simple, the concepts presented here scale extremely well. So, regardless of whether there are only a few commands or hundreds, the same approach can be used to keep the architecture flexible.

This application also shows another example of how to keep higher-level code loosely coupled to the underlying hardware. It ensures the LED command code only uses a defined interface to access a Pulse Width Modulation (PWM) implementation, rather than directly interacting with the MCU registers/HAL. The architecture consists of the following major components:

  • A USB driver: This is the same USB stack that has been used in previous examples. VirtualCommDriverMultiTask...
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