oRT3Real Time Programming with FreeRTOS
Comprehensive FreeRTOS training: from Theory to Practice
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Objectives
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- Familiarity with embedded C concepts and programming
- Basic knowledge of embedded processors
- Theoretical course
- PDF course material (in English)
- Course dispensed using the Teams video-conferencing system
- The trainer to answer trainees’ questions during the training and provide technical and pedagogical assistance through the Teams video-conferencing system
- Practical activities
- Practical activities represent from 40% to 50% of course duration
- The trainer has access to trainees’ Online PCs for technical and pedagogical assistance.
- Example code, labs and solutions
- Virtual Machine with System Workbench for STM32 with GNU ARM Eclipse QEMU
- Emulated board STM32F4-Discovery
- Total: 20 hours
- 4 sessions, 5 hours each (excluding break time)
- From 40% to 50% of training time is devoted to practical activities
- Some Labs may be completed between sessions and are checked by the trainer on the next session
- 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
- ARMv7-M Architecture
- Cortex-M4 Architecture
- Registers and Execution States
- Privileges, Mode and Stacks
- Reset Behavior
- Exception and Interrupts
- The System Timer
- Memory Model
- Power Management
- STM32F407x Implementation Example
| Exercise: | Create a new project | |
| Exercise: | Interrupt Management | |
- Embedded system architectures
- Tasks and process
- Real-Time
| Exercise: | Context Switch | |
- The FreeRTOS Family
- FreeRTOS+Ecosystem
- Why use FreeRTOS
- FreeRTOS Code Structure
- Scheduler
- Schedulability
- Creating Tasks
- Task Priorities
- Task States
- The idle task
- Delays
- Changing Task Priority
- Deleting Tasks
- Suspending Tasks
- Kernel Structures
- Thread Local Storage
- Kernel Interrupts on Cortex-M4
- Scheduling Traces
- Visual trace diagnostics using Tracealyzer
| Exercise: | Task Management | |
| Exercise: | Periodic Tasks | |
| Exercise: | Task Statistics | |
- FreeRTOS Memory Managers
- Out of Memory management
- Stack overflow detection
| Exercise: | Context Switch Measurement | |
- Mutual Exclusion
- Critical Sections
- Mutexes
- Gatekeeper Tasks
- Lock-Free Data Structures
| Exercise: | Resource Management | |
- Queues
- Queues Sets
- Synchronization
- Events and Event Groups
- The Readers/writer problem
- Using Other Primitives within an ISR
| Exercise: | Queue Management | |
| Exercise: | Readers Writer Problem | |
- Tasks and Interrupts
- FreeRTOS Binary and Counting Semaphores
- Task Notifications
- Stream Buffers
- Message Buffers
- Interrupt Nesting
- Low Power Support
| Exercise: | Interrupt Management | |
| Exercise: | Tickless Mode | |
- Software Timers
- Deferred Interrupt Handling
| Exercise: | Implement Soft Timers | |
| Exercise: | Software Timer Management | |
- The Cortex-M MPU
- The FreeRTOS-MPU Port
- Defining MPU Regions
- Creating User and System Tasks
- Practical Usage Tips
- FIFO
- Linked list
- Memory Management
- Memory Errors
- 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
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Last update of course schedule: 23 February 2026
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