FreeRTOS Examples

This project contains examples for Using the FreeRTOS™ Real Time Kernel - A Practical Guide by Richard Barry.

Build (cmake)

The CMake build is mainly taken from: https://github.com/ryankurte/efm32-base

Build Status (Travis)

Personal Notes

Here are some of my notes for FreeRTOS.

Examples

Chapter 1 Task Management

Example	Description	Done
Example 1.	Creating tasks	✓
Example 2.	Using the task parameter	✓
Example 3.	Experimenting with priorities	✓
Example 4.	Using the Blocked state to create a delay	✓
Example 5.	Converting the example tasks to use vTaskDelayUntil()	✓
Example 6.	Combining blocking and non-blocking tasks	✓
Example 7.	Defining an idle task hook function	✓
Example 8.	Changing task priorities	✓
Example 9.	Deleting tasks	✓

Chapter 2 Queue Management

Example	Description	Done
Example 10.	Blocking when receiving from a queue	✓
Example 11.	Blocking when sending to a queue or sending structures on a queue	✓

Chapter 3 Interrupt Management

Example	Description	Done
Example 12.	Using a binary semaphore to synchronize a task with an interrupt	✓
Example 13.	Using a counting semaphore to synchronize a task with an interrupt	✓
Example 14.	Sending and receiving on a queue from within an interrupt	✓

Chapter 4 Resource Management

Example	Description	Done
Example 15.	Rewriting vPrintString() to use a semaphore	✓
Example 16.	Re-writing vPrintString() to use a gatekeeper task	✓