IoT Foundations: Operating Systems Fundamentals

Description

In this course, you will learn:

• The Internet of Things (IoT) offers developers an array of exciting possibilities to explore
• The basics of using an operating system for IoT, and explores OS-related concepts and examples using an OS kernel, FreeRTOS
• About characteristics and technical requirements of OSs, and explore task management, intertask communication, memory management, and more.

Syllabus:

• Introduction
• What you should know
• Using the exercise files
   

1. Introduction to Operating Systems for IoT

• Why we need operating systems
• OS characteristics for IoT
• General-purpose OS vs. embedded OS
   

2. Overview of Existing Operating Systems for IoT

• OSs for resource-constrained devices
• Linux OSs
• Windows 10 IoT Core
   

3. Introduction to FreeRTOS

• Overview of FreeRTOS
• System architecture
• Get started with FreeRTOS
• Run FreeRTOS on the nRF51 DK board
   

4. Tasks

• Task execution parallelism
• Task scheduler
• Task management
• Thread safety
• Deadlock
   

5. Intertask Communication

• Queue
• Semaphore and mutex
   

6. Memory Management

• Memory allocation
• First fit algorithm
   

7. Timers

• Use software timers
   

8. Inputs and Outputs

• I/O devices and peripherals
• Interrupts
   

9. Debugging

• Debug your OS-based applications

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