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Beginning STM32: Developing with FreeRTOS, libopencm3, and GCC
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Beginning STM32: Developing with FreeRTOS, libopencm3, and GCC

by Warren Gay
March 2024
Intermediate to advanced
535 pages
8h 27m
English
Apress
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W. GayBeginning STM32Maker Innovations Serieshttps://doi.org/10.1007/979-8-8688-0199-0_5

5. FreeRTOS

Warren Gay1  
(1)
St. Catharines, ON, Canada
 

Early in this book, we transition to the use of FreeRTOS. Doing so offers a number of advantages, mainly because the programming becomes much simpler and offers greater reliability as a result.

Not all platforms are capable of supporting an RTOS (real-time operating system). Each task within a multitasking system requires some stack space to be allocated where variables and return addresses of function calls are stored. There simply isn’t much RAM on an ATmega328, for example, with only 2K. The STM32F103C8T6, on the ...

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