uC/OS-III, The Real-Time Kernel, or a High Performance, Scalable, ROMable, Preemptive, Multitasking Kernel for Microprocessors, Microcontrollers & DSPs (Board NOT Included)

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This book puts the spotlight on how a real-time kernel works. Using Micrium's uC/OS-III as a reference, the book consists of two complete parts. The first describes real-time kernels in generic terms. Part II provides examples to the reader, using STMicroelectronics' STM32F107 microcontroller, based on the popular ARM Cortex-M3 architecture. A companion evaluation board (uC/Eval-STM32F107) NOT INCLUDED, and tools (IAR Systems Embedded Workbench for ARM), enable the reader to be up and running quickly, and have an amazing hands-on experience, leading to a high level of proficiency. This book is written for serious embedded systems programmers, consultants, hobbyists, and students interested in understanding the inner workings of a real-time kernel. uC/OS-III is not just a great learning platform, but also a full commercial-grade software package, ready to be part of a wide range of products. uC/OS-III is a highly portable, ROMable, scalable, preemptive real-time, multitasking kernel designed specifically to address the demanding requirements of today's embedded systems. uC/OS-III is the successor to the highly popular uC/OS-II real-time kernel but can use most of uC/OS-II's ports with minor modifi cations. Some of the features of uC/OS-III are: Preemptive multitasking with round-robin scheduling of tasks at the same priority Supports an unlimited number of tasks and other kernel objects Rich set of services: semaphores, mutual exclusion semaphores with full priority inheritance, event flags, message queues, timers, fixed-size memory block management, and more Built-in performance measurements

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Jean Labrosse founded Micrium in 1999. He is a regular speaker at the Embedded Systems Conference in Boston and Silicon Valley, and other industry conferences. Author of two definitive books on embedded design: MicroC/OS-II, The Real-Time Kernel and Embedded Systems Building Blocks, Complete and Ready-to-Use Modules in C, he holds BSEE and MSEE from the University of Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada.

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Publisher : Micrium Press (September 21, 2009)
Language: : English
Hardcover : 820 pages
ISBN-10 : 0982337531
ISBN-13 : 978-0982337530
Item Weight : 4 pounds
Dimensions : 7 x 1.94 x 10 inches

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A. Tavoularis

Good book very understandable

Reviewed in the United States on April 2, 2013

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The reason i am not putting five stars has only to do with the support by the company. Regarding the book itself, all the chapters are well orgrnized, they are understandable and the examples at the end, although simplistic, they give a good idea of how the board should be programmed

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Jukka Matila

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Reviewed in the United States on April 26, 2018

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Very helpful book, with good examples

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Amazon Customer

Good condition. Great price

Reviewed in the United States on March 1, 2016

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Exactly what I needed. Good condition. Great price. Supports a good cause

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disappointing

Reviewed in the United States on October 11, 2009

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As a long time reader of the initial book UC/OS-II I eagerly awaited the release of this one. Particularly since it was supposed to have "everything you need to get up and running developing code in minutes". WRONG!! There is no code, development tools etc with the book that I received. When I tried to find a down load link in the book - it doesn't exist. I finally got into micriums site after registering and down loaded what I thought was the companion software, wrong again. Just application examples, no dev tools. I havent even got passed chapter one yet and I already feel like asking for a refund.

The rest of the book may be fantastic but it fails on the books basic premis of providing a quick fix for exploring UC/OS-III. Other systems I have purchased both hardware and software come complete ready to go. If thats what you want and are a newbie to UC/OS-III then dont buy this book!!

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Michael S. Wilk

Reviewed in the United States on November 6, 2009

I am updating my review based on more experience with the book, board, and OS. When I first reviewed the book and RTOS, I was given the source for a project and didn't t realize the source code is no longer included with the book. It is available for the board as a library. If you license the RTOS, you will get the source code. The RTOS itself is significantly improved from µC/OS-II. I am using this RTOS for a significant project on two ARM based processors. This is a review of the book/board combination so I'll focus back on that. The book itself is THE reference for the RTOS. There are good examples and explanations. I will stick with my original (partial) disappointment in the board. Some of what I do is experiment and/or teach folks new to embedded and RTOS use. The lack of buttons, switches, a display, makes learning/teaching more difficult. The recommendation from Micrium is to use uC/Probe. I used that product early in its product life and had major issues. It's a good concept but didn't work well for me. It may work better now. I will say that the RTOS source (since I have it), as always, is extremely well documented, following Micrium's coding standard. There are now additional CPU/board options in addition to the ST ARM Cortex M3 that I got. The TI version looks quite cool (a little robot). As far as the development environment, IAR Workbench, it is a fairly mature product, but it still has a few issues. In particular, the editor is rather poor (they don't claim to have a good editor). Occasional crashes are to be expected. I ran the tool under Vista, so that could explain some of the problems. I keep this book nearby for quick reference and recommend others do the same if you will be developing with µC/OS-III. If you are developing with USB, TCP/IP, etc., be prepared to look at additional components to meet your product requirements.

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drowsysaturday

good reference

Reviewed in the United States on July 16, 2014

The review from R. Wang is really misleading. If you don't use the OS for commercial purpose, you can get the OS, example projects, and the pdf version of this book for free online on the Micrium website. I bought the book without knowing that though. I actually bought the alternative version for a specific micro-controller from TI, and I liked seeing the OS and program running in action on an actual board. And Vxworks sucks. I couldn't really find a VxWorks book as comprehensive as this. Just the manual, a couple of short cook-books, and a bunch of books written in Chinese edition that I couldn't understand. Also, remember the famous priority inversion problem with Vxworks on NASA's Mars Pathfinder ??

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Outstanding reference

Reviewed in the United States on January 22, 2010

If you use the uC/OS-III ("micro see oh ess three") real time operating system, this book is compulsory. It's the only reference that covers all features of the 2009 release of this popular RTOS. Unlike some other "only references" on their subjects, I find this one well-written, well-organized, and easy to use. Roughly the first half of the book explains the OS operation in extraordinary detail. This isn't an OS for naïve users. It comes in source form, for embedded system developers who need to port it to novel processors and who need to understand every instruction when the debugging turns ugly. The text supports those developers well, explaining the intent and usage of all the major OS subsystems. Appendices in the second half of this massive book present the programmers' reference, including configuration controls. Embedded systems are as different from each other as your car's airbags are from your cell phone, so these options let you include all and only the features needed for the application at hand - an important way to reduce ROM requirements in cost-critical applications. The last 150 pages walk the user through examples based on Micrium's eval board. As a reference, I fault this book only for its maddeningly brief index - but weaknesses there are largely made up for in the detailed (15 page) table of contents.

I'm not creating embedded systems right now, though. I'm teaching an OS course, one where the students will appreciate a concentration on real-time and embedded systems. This makes a great secondary reference for that class, as a case study in what an industrial-strength RTOS looks like. Best of all, it deals with the OS source, sometimes line by line. That gives students a much more realistic idea of what a task control block is than some handwaving about "all the information the OS needs."

If you need this, as an industrial practitioner, you need it. But, even for people just learning about operating systems, this makes a great backup to broader, more theoretical texts like Silberschatz or Tanenbaum . It gives the solid feel of reality to concepts that might seem vague until you see them in practice.

- wiredweird

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