Hi everyone, I was looking into some informations about the possibility to use RTEMS on a tiny µC with an ARM7TDMI included (this is the STR712FR, but for the moment I don't know if it's the 0, 1 or 2 ...) I have seen that this is possible to reduce the size of the kernell with RTEMS, but I still don't know how many KB of RAM and flash I need to make it run :S Also what do you think about FreeRTOS? Better that RTEMS on a µC? I'm sorry but this is the first time in my life I have to use a RTOS (I'm a trainee ...) and I'm getting issue finding those informations. Thans a lot. Romain
I have had the information from my project manager, the µC is the STR712FR2 which have 256+16 KB of flash and 64 KB of RAM. So do you think this is possible to put RTEMS or I should use FreeRTOS or µClinux? By the way, why the flash memory is presented as 256+16? What's the interest? Thanks a lot Romain
no-one can answer me? For the moment I can't test on my hard (I'll receive it in few weeks) but I need to know in order to devellop properly.
Since you did not mention external Flash- and RAM-Memory I don't think there is a chance to get ucLinux working. I have not worked with RTMS but as far as I know it also needs more memory as the controller offers internally. FreeRTOS should be o.k. if you need a small, well-documented and free RTOS. You may take a look on ChibiOS/RT which offers similar functionality and a comparable license. Please note that uClinux and RTMS offer a lot of more functions and drivers. But it's not that difficult to extend the STM STR7-StdPerphLib with synchronisation-code (e.g. mutexes) in case different tasks/threads access the same peripheral. Using the STM-STR7-Library as base should save some time.
Martin Thomas wrote: > You may take a look on ChibiOS/RT which offers similar > functionality and a comparable license. Martin, do you have experience with the ChibiOS/RT? It looks interesting but I didn't find the time to run a test. If you have experience, are you satisfied with that OS? Can you suggest it? Thanks, 900ss
Hi, Sorry to "UP" this topic but I'm still on the choice of the OS so far on the project (I'm not making the choice, just doing the research, my project manager is making the choice). With your informations and others I have found on the Internet, I can say that RTEMS will not be abloe to run on my µC! But you have said that I should have a look on uClinux, and this is what I am doing ... And I have seen that it still needs too much memory (arround 500KB apparently ... But I am not sure). Anyway the interesting part is that I can use a dbg with this OS, which is very interesting, but with the memory problem so far I should not be able to use the OS on my board :(. I know that there is, on uClinux, a TCP/IP stack, and I don't need this. Is there any way to remove component from uClinux in order to decrease the size ok the kernel? I can't find info about this on the uClinux website so far, and I'm still searching! Or maybe I'm just wrong and this is possible to run directly uClinux on 256+16 KB of flash and 64 KB of RAM, inernal to my µC? Thanks a lot for your answers. Romain Marchaudon
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