FreeRTOS

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FreeRTOS is a popular free real-time operating system widely used with microcontrollers and small microprocessors. FreeRTOS is lightweight and open-source. In addition to real-time applications, FreeRTOS is also suitable for low power, always-on and extremely fast boot applications.

• Developer: Real Time Engineers Ltd.
• Supported Modules: Colibri iMX7, Colibri VF61, all modules of the iMX8 series.

• Installation steps and Image:

  Developing M4 Applications Using Visual Studio Code

  FreeRTOS on the Cortex-M4 of a Apalis iMX8

  FreeRTOS on the Cortex-M4 of a Colibri iMX8X

  FreeRTOS on the Cortex-M4 of a Colibri iMX7

  FreeRTOS on the Cortex-M4 of a Colibri VF61

  FreeRTOS on the Cortex-M4 of a Verdin iMX8M Mini

  Using K20 Companion MCU on Apalis TK1

• Additional resources:

  Using ARM DS-5 IDE with Cortex-M4 of a Colibri iMX7

• Webinars:

  First steps with Heterogeneous Multicore Processing on the NXP® i.MX 7

  Guest webinar: How to perform advanced debugging on Heterogeneous ARM® Cortex Systems