TI-RTOS

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TI-RTOS
Developer Texas Instruments
Written in C
OS family Real-time operating systems
Working stateCurrent
Source model Open source
Initial release1985;38 years ago (1985)
Latest release 2.21.01.08 / February 2018;5 years ago (2018-02)
Marketing target Embedded systems
Available in English
Platforms TMS320 DSPs, ARM, MSP430
Kernel type Microkernel
License BSD, EULA
Official website www.ti.com/tool/ti-rtos

TI-RTOS is an embedded tools ecosystem created and offered by Texas Instruments (TI) for use across a range of their embedded system processors. It includes a real-time operating system (RTOS) component named TI-RTOS Kernel (formerly named SYS/BIOS, which evolved from DSP/BIOS), networking connectivity stacks, power management, file systems, instrumentation, and inter-processor communications like DSP/BIOS Link. It is free and open-source software, released under a BSD license.

Contents

TI-RTOS can be used within TI's Code Composer Studio integrated development environment (IDE), IAR Systems' IAR Embedded Workbench, and the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC). Separate versions of TI-RTOS are provided to support TI's MSP43x (including MSP432), SimpleLink Wireless MCU, Sitara, Tiva C, C2000, and C6000 lines of embedded devices.

TI-RTOS provides system services to an embedded application such as preemptive multitasking, memory management and real-time analysis. TI-RTOS can be used in different microprocessors, with different processing and memory constraints. It is supported by Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) and Transport Layer Security (TLS) libraries such as wolfSSL. [1]

History

The roots of TI-RTOS were originally developed by Spectron Microsystems (a subsidiary of Dialogic Corporation) as the first RTOS developed specifically for digital signal processors and was named SPOX. Spectron eventually also developed a second product named BIOSuite that included a real-time kernel and various associated tools.

Spectron Microsystems was eventually acquired by Texas Instruments [2] and the SPOX and BIOSuite products were merged into one microkernel product named DSP/BIOS. The DSP/BIOS RTOS product underwent significant changes to its application programming interface (API) in version 6.0. [3] With the release of version 6.3 in August 2010, DSP/BIOS was renamed SYS/BIOS to reflect its support for microcontrollers beyond DSPs. [4] With the release of version 6.40 in April 2014, SYS/BIOS was renamed TI-RTOS Kernel and made a component of the TI-RTOS product suite. [5]

TI-RTOS 1.00 was released initially in July 2012. [6] for TI's microprocessors [7] The 2.00 release of TI-RTOS in April 2014 completed the renaming process and integrated the TI-RTOS Kernel and other components under one software umbrella.

Component overview

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Through special plugins provided by Texas Instruments, GStreamer makes use of hardware acceleration provided by e.g., Texas Instruments DaVinci.

TI-RTOS consists of these components, some of which are unavailable for all embedded target families:

Licensing

Most of the TI-RTOS components are released under the BSD License. Any user can rebuild the kernel using the included source code.

RTOS Kernel Overview

Organization

The TI-RTOS Kernel [8] is made up of a number of discrete components, called modules. Each module can provide services via an API and is individually configurable. For example, system semaphores are provided by a module named ti.sysbios.knl.Semaphore. A developer can choose whether this module is included in the runtime image or optimized out. If included, the user can configure various aspects of the Semaphore module, and instances of semaphores to be created on system start up. The module also provides an API so that semaphores can be created, posted, pended, and deleted as an embedded program runs.

Threading

TI-RTOS Kernel provides support for several different types of threads in an embedded system.

Memory management

TI-RTOS Kernel provides tooling to set up an embedded system's memory map and allow memory buffers to be allocated and deallocated while the system runs. The type of memory manager used during runtime is configurable so that memory fragmentation can be minimized as needed.

Real-time debugging

TI-RTOS Kernel provides modules that allow it to provide information about how the system is executing. This includes how different threads are loading the CPU over time, and logging events as they occur in both the system application and within the TI-RTOS Kernel. Also, the Code Composer Studio IDE can take this logged data and graphically display it for analysis.

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References

  1. ↑ "Speed Up Development: Code Composer Studio with TI-RTOS and wolfSSL". wolfSSL. 2015-08-13. Retrieved 2019-02-19.
  2. ↑ Texas Instruments to Acquire Spectron Microsystems from Dialogic Corporation, Press Release January 22, 1998
  3. ↑ Differences Between DSP/BIOS and SYS/BIOS, Texas Instruments Wiki
  4. ↑ SYS/BIOS Product Download Pages
  5. ↑ SYS/BIOS 6.40.01.15 GA Release Notes
  6. ↑ TI-RTOS Product Releases and Download Links
  7. ↑ TI offers scalable thread-aware RTOS spanning full MCU portfolio
  8. ↑ TI-RTOS Kernel software page on TI website
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