Operating system for real-time embedded systems programming

Abstract

Nowadays, software development for embedded systems is increasingly based on real-time operating systems. Despite the increasing complexity of such systems development, the undoubted advantages are the wide functionality of the developed software. As a result, inter-process communication appears in complex systems as interaction between number of processes. For the data exchange between processes using messages and queuing mechanism, semaphores, signals and mutexes to synchronize the processes. This paper presents the choice of real-time operating system and shows the program design for an embedded system based on the development board “GlobalLogic Embedded Starter Kit”.