FreeRTOS & Board Support Package

FreeRTOS

The applications for all OpenIMU300 units use the FreeRTOS Real-Time Operating System (https://www.freertos.org), while OpenIMU330 units uses a simple real-time scheduler. FreeRTOS is very widely used, as it is feature-rich, has a small footprint, and can be used in commercial application without having to expose intellectual property.

FreeRTOS is licensed under the MIT Open Source License (https://www.freertos.org/a00114.html).

The critical feature of FreeRTOS:

  • Scheduling Options

    • Pre-emptive
    • Co-operative
    • Round robin with time slicing
  • Fast task notifications
  • Configurable & scalable with a 6K to 12K ROM footprint

  • Mutexes & semaphores

    • Mutexes with priority inheritance
    • Recursive mutexes
    • Binary and counting semaphores
  • Chip and compiler agnostic
  • Very efficient software timers
  • Can be configured to never completely disable interrupts
  • Easy to use API
  • Easy to use message passing

Board Support Package - To Be Provided