Comments on: FreeRTOS PSoC Template Project

By: Alan Hawse

Alan Hawse — Wed, 11 Oct 2017 11:39:10 +0000

In reply to Mark. Nope... but Ill try that..

By: Mark

Mark — Tue, 10 Oct 2017 17:36:49 +0000

In reply to Carlos. The uC/OS products (II and III) are both very good. They have been around a while, are reliable, and offer the usual features in a small footprint. For the most part all embedded RTOS offer the usual range of features, like tasks, semaphores, queues, events, mailboxes, and mutexes. The are pre-emptive and deterministic. They are typically configurable and fit in a small footprint. I like FreeRTOS because it also offers the task-specific semaphores, queues and notify features that Alan has touched upon. It is nothing that you cannot do in another OS but FreeRTOS makes it really simple and neat. It also does cooperative scheduling where you can run a number of threads that share a stack, which can be good when you do not have oodles or RAM.

By: Mark

Mark — Tue, 10 Oct 2017 17:30:39 +0000

Did you try the Copy to My Templates feature in PSoC Creator? if you do that then you can create new projects with the usual New Project dialog and skip your copy/rename steps.

By: Alan Hawse

Alan Hawse — Sun, 01 Oct 2017 13:08:26 +0000

In reply to Carlos. No I haven't... I have been using ThreadX for WICED. And I am interested in Zephyr

By: Carlos

Carlos — Sun, 24 Sep 2017 00:54:29 +0000

Thanks for the writeup, it’s very useful.
OffTopic:
¿Have you used uC/OS-III RTOS? It have support for PSoCs, but the example projects are pretty old (developed in Creator 2 IIRC and uC/OS-II), a comparative between those RTOSes may be interesting.