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Seeking comparisson of free RTOS for embedded

Sorry if this is a FAQ, I have googled around and don''t find much.

What to I want from an RTOS?

- The standard message/timer/mutex/thread stuff

- Some sort of abstraction layer, so that I can unit test my code under Linux or Windows before hitting the hardware

- Support for a bunch of processors

- Easily configurable

- Good documentation & support forums

- in fact anything that lets me concentrate on my own design/code/test and not have to worry too much about the o/s

- hmm, built in memory pool & debug trace would be useful (and does anyone have any pointers to good FSM bases classes for C++ ?)

You don't have to discuss here, although I would quite welcome it, just some URLs would suffice.

Thanks in advance for any help.

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Baron Samedi
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QL

FreeRTOS certainly meets some of your requirements. I am not sure about the Linux/Windows abstraction.

Micrium's uC/OS-II is free if this is not a commercial product. You can use it for hobby and educational use without fee. There is a Win32 port for it on the Micrium site, or you can contact us for our version of the Win32 port. It has some optional tools that support debug trace but the feature is not built in.

Scott

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Not Really Me

Hello,

You may also evaluate ChibiOS/RT, it has all the features you specified and more. The RTOS is licensed under the GPL3 but has an exception clause that allows for closed source commercial applications.

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Documentation:

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Feel free to make all the comparisons and benchmarks you like, there are no restrictions in the license.

Giovanni

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gdisirio

For a free rtos offering try Unison or DSPnano for MCUs. It has all that you need:

- pthreads, mutex, ... POSIX API, Linux compatible

- complete I/O model

- serial I/O

- file system

- tcp stack (free for non commercial use only)

If you want commercial support, it is available in a more advanced version from RoweBots at rowebots.com. I has all the add on components that you might need.

Kim

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