OS2MQX Programming on Kinetis Microcontroller
Programming applications using the MQX operating system
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Objectives
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- Convenient course material with space for taking notes
- Documentation, labs and solutions
- A PC under Windows 7 for two trainees
- A NXP Kinetis K70 or K60 (Cortex/M4) with SDK or CodeWarrior IDE
- Familiarity with embedded C concepts and programming
- Basic knowledge of embedded processors
- Any embedded systems engineer or technician with the above prerequisites.
- The prerequisites indicated above are assessed before the training by the technical supervision of the traineein his company, or by the trainee himself in the exceptional case of an individual trainee.
- Trainee progress is assessed in two different ways, depending on the course:
- For courses lending themselves to practical exercises, the results of the exercises are checked by the trainer while, if necessary, helping trainees to carry them out by providing additional details.
- Quizzes are offered at the end of sections that do not include practical exercises to verifythat the trainees have assimilated the points presented
- At the end of the training, each trainee receives a certificate attesting that they have successfully completed the course.
- In the event of a problem, discovered during the course, due to a lack of prerequisites by the trainee a different or additional training is offered to them, generally to reinforce their prerequisites,in agreement with their company manager if applicable.
Course Outline
- Registers, Mode and Stacks
- Exception Management
- MQX overview
- Organization of MQX
- MQX directory structure
- RTOS directory
- PSP, BSP, I/0 and others source subdirectories
- Initializing and starting MQX
- Developing with NXP CodeWarrior Development Studio
- Build projects
- PSP build-project
- BSP build-project
- Post-build processing
- Processor expert
| Exercise: | Creating a simple MQX project using SDK or NXP CodeWarrior Development Studio and the Processor Expert Tool | |
- Managing Tasks
- Creating tasks
- Managing task errors
- Terminating tasks
- Scheduling
- FIFO scheduling
- Round Robin scheduling
- Context Switch
| Exercise: | Use the MQX API to manage tasks | |
- Memory with variable-size blocks
- Lightweight memory with variable-size blocks
- Memory with fixed-size blocks
- Creating partitions
- Allocating and freeing partition blocks
| Exercise: | Managing memory | |
- Synchronizing tasks through MQX RTOS
- Events
- Lightweight events
- Lightweight semaphores
- Semaphores
- Lightweight Messages queue
- Mutual Exclusion through MQX RTOS
- Create critical sections
- Mutexes
- Avoiding Priority inversion
| Exercise: | Synchronizing tasks using MQX semaphores API | |
| Exercise: | Create mutual exclusion using MQX semaphores API | |
- Handling Interrupt with Cortex-M4 core
- Handling Interrupt and Exceptions in MQX RTOS
- Initializing interrupt handling
- Restrictions on ISRs
- Handling exceptions
- Handling ISR exceptions
- Handling task exceptions
| Exercise: | Use the MQX API to handle interrupt | |
- Time components
- Timers
- Lightweight timers
- Watchdogs
- Hardware Timer on Cortex-M4
| Exercise: | Using software timers | |
- Instrumentation
- Logs
- Lightweight logs
- Kernel logs
- Stack usage utilities
| Exercise: | Debug an application with the log component | |
- Drivers architecture
- Installing Drivers
- Using Drivers
| Exercise: | Hands-on: Working with the ADC Driver | |
- How to start with the different libraries (MFS, Shell, RTCS, USB) using the providing examples
- RTCS and Shell Libraries at a glance
| Exercise: | Running a simple TCP echo Server / HTTP server application | |
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