Re: Small footprint RTOS for embedded system



On Jan 8, 6:37 am, "SteveM" <m.stev...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I am looking for a free commercial usage & open source RTOS with small
footprint. I want RTOS to be very small preferably  <5KBytes, which does
just Task handling/ISR/Semaphore.

I heard couple of small footprint RTOS like freeRTOS, Nucleus, ThreadX,
silRTOS, eCOS etc but don't have detail. Can someone help with details?

Steve

Search your local amazon.com for books by "labrosse", and you'll find
Jean J. Labrosse's "MicroC OS II: The Real Time Kernel (With CD-ROM)",
ISBN 978-1578201037. It's a classic little RTOS that has been around
for years, and comes with tutorials on RTOS's and how to use them.

Here's a paper that describes its implementation in a minature remote-
controlled helicopter: http://symposium.ccec.unf.edu/archives/2004/cd/papers/214B.pdf
.

Googling on "ucOS" and/or "labrosse" will find more.
.



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