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A Real-Time Operating System (RTOS) is designed for real-time computing applications, enabling rapid task switching to create the illusion of simultaneous execution on a single core. RTOS offers essential functions such as time management, task scheduling, and interrupt handling, and is categorized into hard, firm, and soft real-time systems. Key advantages include priority-based scheduling, modular development, and efficient resource allocation, making it suitable for applications with strict timing constraints.

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RTOS

A Real-Time Operating System (RTOS) is designed for real-time computing applications, enabling rapid task switching to create the illusion of simultaneous execution on a single core. RTOS offers essential functions such as time management, task scheduling, and interrupt handling, and is categorized into hard, firm, and soft real-time systems. Key advantages include priority-based scheduling, modular development, and efficient resource allocation, making it suitable for applications with strict timing constraints.

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What is RTOS in embedded systems?

A Real Time Operating System, commonly known as an RTOS, is a software


component that rapidly switches between tasks, giving the impression that multiple
programs are being executed at the same time on a single processing core.

Basic functions of RTOS

Time management, Task management, Interrupt handling, Memory


management, Exception handling , Task synchronization, Task scheduling

What are RTOS used for?


A real-time operating system (RTOS) is an operating system (OS) for real-
time computing applications that processes data and events that have critically
defined time constraints.

Important reasons for using RTOS:


• It offers priority-based scheduling, which allows you to separate
analytical processing from non-critical processing. • The Real time OS
provides API functions that allow cleaner and smaller application code. •
Abstracting timing dependencies and the task-based design results in
fewer interdependencies between modules. • RTOS offers modular task-
based development, which allows modular task-based testing. • The task-
based API encourages modular development as a task, will typically have
a clearly defined role. It allows designers/teams to work independently on
their parts of the project. • An RTOS is event-driven with no time wastage
on processing time for the event which is not occur

What are the 3 types of RTOS *?

 Hard Real-Time Systems. In this, the time constraint is very short and
strict. ...
 Firm Real-Time Systems. In these systems, although the deadline is given
but, missing them does not result in great loss. ...
 Soft Real-Time Systems. As the name suggests, the system handles the
deadlines softly.
What is called kernel?

The kernel is a computer program at the core of a computer's operating


system and generally has complete control over everything in the system.

What is the task scheduling?

Task scheduling in a real-time operating system (RTOS) is the process of


determining which task should be executed next, based on the system's resources
and the tasks' priorities and deadlines.

What is task scheduling with example?


Some examples of tasks that you can use the Task Scheduler to execute
are: starting an application;

Sending an email message. You can schedule a task to execute in


response to these triggers: When a specific system event occurs. At a specific time.

Advantages of Scheduling
 Allows efficient and timely distribution of information to relevant users.
 Ensures that heavy querying is not done during peak hours.
 Minimizes the manual intervention by automating the processes.
 Enables users to analyse the changes in the data in real- time.

Scheduling policies

Scheduling policies are algorithms for allocating CPU


resources to concurrent tasks allocated to a processor.

Task scheduling policies


 Fixed priority" means the scheduler will not permanently change the priority
of a task, although it may temporarily boost the priority of a task due to priority
inheritance.
 "Preemptive" means the scheduler always runs the highest priority RTOS
task that is able to run, regardless of when a task becomes able to run. For
example, if an interrupt service routine (ISR) changes the highest priority task
that is able to run, the scheduler will stop the currently running lower priority
task and start the higher priority task - even if that occurs within a time slice.
In this case, the lower priority task is said to have been "preempted" by the
higher priority task.
 "Round-robin" means tasks that share a priority take turns entering the
Running state.
 "Time sliced" means the scheduler will switch between tasks of equal priority
on each tick interrupt - the time between tick interrupts being one time slice.
(The tick interrupt is the periodic interrupt used by the RTOS to measure
time.)

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