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Embedded software article: RTOS Revealed #15

My latest article on embedded.com has been published. This piece is the fifteenth installment of the RTOS Revealed series, which will continue to appear through the rest of 2017 and beyond. The series will cover every aspect of real time operating systems.

Partition memory: utility services and data structures

In this article, I complete my look at partition memory services …

Here are all the articles in the series:

Introducing RTOS Revealed
Program structure and real time
Tasks and scheduling
Tasks, the context switch and interrupts
Inter-task communication and synchronization
Other RTOS services
Nucleus SE – an introduction
Nucleus SE – internals and deployment
The scheduler – implementation
The scheduler – options and context save
Tasks – configuration and API introduction
Task utility services
Task data structures and unsupported API calls
Partition memory: introduction and basic services
Partition memory: utility services and data structures

I hope that you find the series interesting and look forward to your input by comment or email or via social media.

Colin Walls

I have over thirty years experience in the electronics industry, largely dedicated to embedded software. A frequent presenter at conferences and seminars and author of numerous technical articles and two books on embedded software, I am a member of the marketing team of the Mentor Graphics Embedded Systems Division, and am based in the UK. Away from work, I have a wide range of interests including photography and trying to point my two daughters in the right direction in life. Learn more about Colin, including his go-to karaoke song and the best parts of being British: http://go.mentor.com/3_acv

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This article first appeared on the Siemens Digital Industries Software blog at https://blogs.sw.siemens.com/embedded-software/2017/12/18/embedded-software-article-rtos-revealed-15/