(Ebook) Real-Time Systems Development with RTEMS and Multicore Processors by Gedare Bloom, Joel Sherrill, Tingting Hu, Ivan Cibrario Bertolotti ISBN 9780367644369, 0367644363

(Ebook) Real-Time Systems Development with RTEMS and Multicore Processors by Gedare Bloom, Joel Sherrill, Tingting Hu, Ivan Cibrario Bertolotti ISBN 9780367644369, 0367644363

The proliferation of multicore processors in the embedded market for Internet-of-Things (IoT) and Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) makes developing real-time (RT) embedded applications increasingly difficult. What is the underlying theory that makes multicore RT possible? How does theory influence application design? When is a RT operating system (RTOS) useful? What RTOS features do applications need? How does a mature RTOS help manage the complexity of multicore hardware? This book answers these questions and more with exemplar Real-Time Executive for Multiprocessor Systems (RTEMS) RTOS to provide concrete advice and examples for constructing useful, feature-rich applications. RTEMS is free, open-source software that supports multi-processor systems for over a dozen CPU architectures and over 150 specific system boards in applications spanning the range of IoT and CPS domains such as satellites, particle accelerators, robots, racing motorcycles, building controls, medical devices, and more. The focus of this book is on enabling RT embedded software engineering while providing sufficient theoretical foundations and hardware background to understand the rationale for key decisions in RTOS and application design and implementation.The topics covered in this book include:- Cross-compilation for embedded systems development- Concurrent programming models used in RT embedded software- RT scheduling theory and algorithms used in wide practice- Usage and comparison of two application programmer interfaces (APIs) in RT embedded software: POSIX and the RTEMS Classic APIs- Design and implementation in RTEMS of commonly found RTOS features for schedulers, task management, time-keeping, inter-task synchronization, inter-task communication, and networking- The challenges introduced by multicore HW, advances in multicore RT theory, and SW engineering multi