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, well-commented source code, and a test suite demonstrating the features;

The system is proven - it has been in use since 1982 with applications in in-vitro medical equipment, process control instrumentation and industrial machinery;

PRTOS is released by Cleveland Engineering Design, LLC - developer of the CoRTOS cooperative RTOS
https://sourceforge.net/projects/cortos-simple/ and the CTREE analysis tool https://sourceforge.net/projects/ctree-graphic-tree-generator/

Commercial licensing is available

Features

  • Preemptive and round-robin scheduling
  • Signaling from task to task and ISR to task
  • Delay and timeout functions
  • Periodic signals
  • Messaging and priority messaging
  • Mutexes with priority inversion mitigation and FIFO or priority queuing
  • Semaphores - binary, signaling and counting

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License

GNU General Public License version 3.0 (GPLv3)

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Intended Audience

Architects, Developers, Engineering

Programming Language

C

Related Categories

C Operating System Kernels, C Embedded Systems Software

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2018-10-05