Software Engineering for Embedded Systems: Chapter 8. Embedded Operating Systems

Real-time operating systems (RTOS) are ubiquitous in embedded systems. This chapter explains what a real-time kernel is and what services it provides the product developer, and explains some of the internals of a kernel. A kernel is a component of an RTOS. In this chapter, we’ll look at task management, interrupt handling, scheduling, context switching, time management, resource management, message passing, priority inversions and much more.