View the RTOS Revealed series A key design requirement of Nucleus SE was a high level of compatibility with Mentor’s flagship real time operating system…

View the RTOS Revealed series Error handling is unlikely to be a major feature of any operating system intended for embedded systems applications. This is…

View the RTOS Revealed series For any kind of operating system, there is some type of start-up mechanism. Exactly how this works varies from one…

View the RTOS Revealed series All modern microprocessors and microcontrollers have interrupt facilities of some sort. This capability is essential to provide the responsiveness required…

View the RTOS Revealed series The idea of application timers was introduced in an earlier article. They are kernel objects that provide tasks with simple…

View the RTOS Revealed series Introduction The concept of time in the context of a real time operating system was introduced in an earlier article,…

View the RTOS Revealed series This article continues our look at pipes. Pipe Utility Services Nucleus RTOS has four API calls which provide utility functions…

Pipes were introduced in an earlier article. They provide a more flexible means of passing simple messages between tasks than mailboxes or queues. Using Pipes…

View the RTOS Revealed series This article continues our look at queues. Queue Utility Services Nucleus RTOS has four API calls which provide utility functions…

View the RTOS Revealed series Queues were introduced in an earlier article. They provide a more flexible means of passing simple messages between tasks than…