Real Time Programming with Eclipse ThreadX

Day One

Cortex-M Overview

• ARMv7-M Architecture

• Cortex-M Architecture

• Registers and Execution States

• Privileges, Mode and Stacks

• Reset Behavior

• Exception and Interrupts

• The System Timer

• Memory Model

• Power Management

• Cortex-M Advanced Features

  • ARM v7/v8 MPU

  • TrustZone Security Extension

Real-Time Concepts

• Base real time concepts

• The Real Time constraints

• Multi-task and real time

• Tasks and Task Descriptors

  • Content of the task descriptor

  • List of task descriptors

• Context Switch

• Task Scheduling and Preemption

  • Tick based or tickless scheduling

• Scheduling systems and schedulability proof

  • Fixed priorities scheduling

  • RMA and EDF scheduling

• Scheduling

  • Deterministic preemptive scheduling

  • Scheduling strategies

  • Cooperative scheduling

  • Hybrid scheduling

Introduction to Azure RTOS

• The Azure ThreadX

• Azure RTOS Ecosystem

• Azure RTOS Features

• Installation and use of Azure RTOS

Day Two

Thread Management

• Thread Control Block

• Thread States

• Thread Creation

• Thread Deletion

• Preemption-Threshold

• Changing Thread Priority

  • Suspending Threads

  • Resume Thread Execution

  • Thread Sleep

• Terminate Thread Execution

• Time-Slice

• Thread States and Thread Design

• Thread Statistics

• Visual trace diagnostics using Tracealyzer

Memory Management in Azure RTOS

• Azure RTOS Memory Managers

  • Memory Byte Pool

  • Memory Block Pool

• Out of Memory management

• Stack overflow detection

Resource Management

• Mutual Exclusion

• Critical Sections

• Mutexes

  • Recursive mutexes

• Gatekeeper Threads

• Lock-Free Data Structures

Day Three

Synchronization Primitives

• Queues

• Synchronization

• Semaphores

  • Binary and counting semaphores

• Events and Event Groups

• The Readers/writer problem

Interrupt Management

• Threads and Interrupts

  • Synchronization between threads and interrupts

• Interrupts on ARM Cortex-M

• Handler thread

• Azure RTOS Primitives Within An ISR

  • Queues Within An ISR

• Low Power Support

Application Timers

• Application Timers

• System Timer Thread

• One-shot timers

• Auto-reload timers

• Application Timer Commands

Data Structures

• FIFO

• Linked list

Memory Management and Real-Time

• Memory Management

• Memory Errors

CMSIS – RTOS

• Overview

• Kernel Information and Control

• Threads Management

• Generic Wait Functions

• Communication and Resource Sharing

  • Semaphores

  • Mutex

  • Message Queue

  • Signal Events

  • Event Flags

  • Memory Pool

  • Mail Queue

• Timer Management