Abstract
We have recently made use of a free and open source Real-Time Operating System (RTOS) called FreeRTOS in teaching engineering students the real-time embedded systems design course. Different from many existing real-time computing courses, we focus on introducing students to the design and application development of real-time embedded systems from the practitioner’s point of view, instead of introducing research or theoretical topics. FreeRTOS is a real-time kernel designed to run on a microcontroller for embedded applications. It supports a large number of microcontroller architectures and has become the leading real-time computing platform. In this course, we have applied this real-world RTOS in both lectures and lab sessions, from the case study for studying basic RTOS concepts, conducting lab experiments with multitask scheduling, resource and service management and real-time interfacing with microcontrollers, to developing capstone projects. Our teaching experiences demonstrate that FreeRTOS is a richly featured, cost-efficient and open source software platform to teach engineering students the real-time embedded systems design and the development of microcontroller-based real-time applications.
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