Tag: rtos

  • Measuring Stack Usage the Hard Way

    by Noah Pendleton

    This article is intended to shed some light on strategies for measuring stack memory usage on a small embedded system.

  • Zephyr Deep Dive: Ring Buffers

    by Eric Johnson

    This post covers Zephyr’s built-in ring buffer API, a component commonly used in producer-consumer scenarios. We will cover how ring buffers in Zephyr work, when to use them, and their strengths and weaknesses. This post will close with an example of augmenting ring buffers with waiting capabilities.

  • How to Build Drivers for Zephyr

    by Jared Wolff

    In this post, I’ll go over some of the nuances related to creating drivers for your peripherals on Zephyr. We’ll talk about Device Tree organization, Kconfig, and CMakeLists.txt files. By the end, you should have an idea on how to tackle your own Zephyr driver aspirations!

  • ARM Cortex-M RTOS Context Switching

    by Chris Coleman

    In this article we will explore how context switching works on ARM Cortex-M MCUs. We will discuss how the hardware was designed to support this operation, features that impact the context switching implementation such as the Floating Point Unit (FPU), and common pitfalls seen when porting an RTOS to a platform. We will also walk through a practical example of analyzing the FreeRTOS context switcher, xPortPendSVHandler, utilizing gdb to strengthen our understanding.