Real-Time Systems Engineering with FreeRTOS and Zephyr RTOS : Build Deterministic, Scalable, and Production-Ready Embedded Applications Using Modern RT
Overview
How do you maintain absolute timing determinism when a single unmanaged resource lock, an unmitigated stack overflow, or a silent memory fragmentation vector can permanently halt your execution core? In the demanding world of commercial firmware development, standard bare-metal super-loops quickly collapse under the pressure of concurrent network bursts, complex cryptographic handshakes, and high-frequency sensor streams. Building production-ready embedded applications requires moving past hobbyist setups and brittle, vendor-dependent libraries.
Real-Time Systems Engineering with FreeRTOS and Zephyr RTOS bridges the gap between academic scheduling theory and hard silicon realities. This comprehensive engineering handbook provides a side-by-side, implementation-driven evaluation of the industry's two dominant real-time operating systems. By contrasting the lean, register-level control of FreeRTOS with the enterprise-grade, declarative architecture of Zephyr RTOS, this book delivers a definitive roadmap for orchestrating complex, multi-threaded systems with microsecond precision.
This professional guide strips away generic definitions and filler content to focus strictly on field-proven architectures, measurable metrics, and production workflows. Leveraging modern C++ (C++20 and C++23) to enforce compile-time safety validation, you will master advanced real-time development techniques.
You will acquire the targeted skills needed to:
- Eliminate phase drift using absolute periodic scheduling and design lock-free, zero-allocation memory pools.
- Isolate burst-heavy network services from low-latency control loops via asynchronous socket structures.
- Construct zero-overhead compile-time OS abstraction layers (OSAL) for safe firmware migrations.
- Implement non-intrusive event tracing with sub-microsecond resolution directly on live silicon.
- Build automated Continuous Integration (CI) and Hardware-in-the-Loop (HIL) testing pipelines to eliminate timing regressions before deployment.
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Details
- ISBN-13: 9798199969628
- ISBN-10: 9798199969628
- Publisher: Independently Published
- Publish Date: June 2026
- Dimensions: 10 x 7 x 0.65 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.18 pounds
- Page Count: 308
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