RT6	Real Time Programming with Azure RTOS - ThreadX

Real-time programming applied to the Azure RTOS (ThreadX) operating system

Objectives Get an overview on Cortex-M architecture Discover the concepts of real time multithreading Understand Real Time constraints Determinism Preemption Interrupts Understand the Azure RTOS architecture Discover the various Azure RTOS services and APIs Learn how to develop Azure RTOS applications Learn how to debug Azure RTOS applications

Course environment Example code, labs and solutions STM32L5 Board on STM32CubeIDE

Prerequisites Familiarity with embedded C concepts and programming Basic knowledge of embedded processors

First Day Cortex-M Overview ARMv7-M Architecture Cortex-M Architecture Registers and Execution States Privileges, Mode and Stacks Reset Behavior Exception and Interrupts The System Timer Memory Model Power Management Cortex-M Advanced Features ARM v7/v8 MPU TrustZone Security Extension Exercise:  Create a new project Exercise:  Interrupt Management Real-Time Concepts Base real time concepts The Real Time constraints Multi-task and real time Tasks and Task Descriptors Content of the task descriptor List of task descriptors Context Switch Task Scheduling and Preemption Tick based or tickless scheduling Scheduling systems and schedulability proof Fixed priorities scheduling RMA and EDF scheduling Scheduling Deterministic preemptive scheduling Scheduling strategies Cooperative scheduling Hybrid scheduling Exercise:  Context Switch Introduction to Azure RTOS The Azure ThreadX Azure RTOS Ecosystem Azure RTOS Features Installation and use of Azure RTOS Second Day Thread Management Thread Control Block Thread States Thread Creation Thread Deletion Preemption-Threshold Changing Thread Priority Suspending Threads Resume Thread Execution Thread Sleep Terminate Thread Execution Time-Slice Thread States and Thread Design Thread Statistics Visual trace diagnostics using Tracealyzer Exercise:  Thread Management Exercise:  Periodic Threads Exercise:  Time-slice change Exercise:  Thread Statistics Memory Management in Azure RTOS Azure RTOS Memory Managers Memory Byte Pool Memory Block Pool

Out of Memory management Stack overflow detection Exercise:  Context Switch Measurement and memory problems detection Resource Management Mutual Exclusion Critical Sections Mutexes Recursive mutexes Gatekeeper Threads Lock-Free Data Structures Exercise:  Implement mutual exclusion between tasks Third Day Synchronization Primitives Queues Synchronization Semaphores Binary and counting semaphores Events and Event Groups The Readers/writer problem Exercise:  Sending messages between tasks Exercise:  Synchronizing a task with another one (Producer – Consumer problem) Exercise:  Readers Writer Problem Interrupt Management Threads and Interrupts Synchronization between threads and interrupts Interrupts on ARM Cortex-M Handler thread Azure RTOS Primitives Within An ISR Queues Within An ISR Low Power Support Exercise:  Interrupt Management – Deferred interrupt processing Exercise:  Tickless and Low Power Mode Application Timers Application Timers System Timer Thread One-shot timers Auto-reload timers Application Timer Commands Exercise:  Implement Soft Timers – Synchronize a task with a timer Data Structures FIFO Linked list Memory Management and Real-Time Memory Management Memory Errors CMSIS – RTOS Overview Kernel Information and Control Threads Management Generic Wait Functions Communication and Resource Sharing Semaphores Mutex Message Queue Signal Events Event Flags Memory Pool Mail Queue Timer Management Interrupt Service Routines

 

Duration	Cost	Calendar
3 days	2390 € HT
Last update: 19 April 2022
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