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PRTOS is an open-source preemptive real time operating system kernel for embedded applications. It presently supports the AVR and MSP430 architectures. The advantages of PRTOS are: It has the smallest footprint of any true preemptive system: 1.9kB for basic scheduling and task control, 5.1kB with all the features below (AVR '328 / gcc -Os); Only 950 lines of code implement all of the RTOS features (SLOC-L); The system is well documented with a comprehensive manual,...

Super lightweight task scheduler aimed at 8 bit AVR ATmega micro-controllers (perfect for Arduino), although it can easily be used on other hardware like Microchip PIC. It uses simple round-robin scheduling so no priority levels can be set. You choose the time interval by calling dispatchTick(), this is usually in a timer interrupt. Range for number of tasks: 0 to 255 tasks Range for delay: 0 to 65535 ticks Each task only uses 5 byte of RAM. The one task LED blink example only uses 5 bytes of RAM and 476 bytes of program memory for the whole program.

...Each task is activated either to be run in parallel (fork) with other active processes in the system or subordinated to the caller task, thus blocking it and creating a hierarchy of tasks. Execution of processes can be preemptive or non-preemptive and, among those with the same priority, a round-robin turn is performed. This operating system can be used to illustrate these concepts and can also be used to suport the execution of some embedded systems.