μC/
OS-III
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The Real-Time Kernel
User’s Manual
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Table of Contents
Preface .................................................................................................. 13
Chapter 1 Introduction .......................................................................................... 15
1-1 Foreground/Background Systems ...................................................... 16
1-2 Real-Time Kernels ................................................................................ 17
1-3 RTOS (Real-Time Operating System) .................................................. 19
1-4 μC/OS-III ............................................................................................... 19
1-5 μC/OS, μC/OS-II and μC/OS-III Features Comparison ...................... 24
1-6 How the Book is Organized ................................................................. 26
1-7 μC/Probe .............................................................................................. 26
1-8 Conventions ......................................................................................... 27
1-9 Chapter Contents ................................................................................. 28
1-10 Licensing .............................................................................................. 32
1-11 Contacting Micrium .............................................................................. 32
Chapter 2 Directories and Files ............................................................................ 33
2-1 Application Code ................................................................................. 36
2-2 CPU ....................................................................................................... 37
2-3 Board Support Package (BSP) ............................................................ 38
2-4 μC/OS-III, CPU Independent Source Code ........................................ 39
2-5 μC/OS-III, CPU Specific Source Code ................................................ 43
2-6 μC/CPU, CPU Specific Source Code .................................................. 44
2-7 μC/LIB, Portable Library Functions ..................................................... 46
2-8 Summary .............................................................................................. 47
Chapter 3 Getting Started with μC/OS-III ............................................................ 51
3-1 Single Task Application ....................................................................... 52
3-2 Multiple Tasks Application with Kernel Objects ................................. 60
