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Posted by peter.sager: Wed. Mar 24, 2004 - 08:23 AM
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Hello Everybody

I am looking for a free AVR RTOS which can be used (compiled) with ICC! I think FreeRTOS (http://www.freertos.org) would be a fine OS, but it is written to be used with AVR-GCC respectively WinAVR.

I tried to port FreeRTOS to ICC without success, but I am not a experienced C programmer. I had some troubles with different ICC libraries. I expect further problems because of the different stack handling of the two compilers. As far as I know, GCC-AVR works with only stack, but ICC use two stacks, one for the CPU and one for the compiler (for function parameters). I expect that every task of a RTOS requires its own stack(s), so this difference could be a fundamental problem.

Does anybody know a RTOS ready to use with ICC, or has anybody already tried to port FreeRTOS to ICC? I need a OS that is able to run multiple tasks with defined timing intervals. It needn’t to be preemptive, a fast task switching is from bigger importance.

Thank you very much in anticipation for each feedback, Peter Sager

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Posted by sleepydj: Thu. Mar 25, 2004 - 08:15 PM
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hey,

check out uC/OS - II. There's a port for IAR, v1.40 and above.
http://www.ucos-ii.com/contents/products/ucos-ii/ports-misc.html

cheers,
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Posted by bobgardner: Sat. Mar 27, 2004 - 05:21 PM
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peter.sager wrote:

I am looking for a free AVR RTOS which can be used (compiled) with ICC! I think FreeRTOS (http://www.freertos.org) would be a fine OS, but it is written to be used with AVR-GCC respectively WinAVR.

I tried to port FreeRTOS to ICC without success, but I am not a experienced C programmer. I had some troubles with different ICC libraries. I expect further problems because of the different stack handling of the two compilers. As far as I know, GCC-AVR works with only stack, but ICC use two stacks, one for the CPU and one for the compiler (for function parameters). I expect that every task of a RTOS requires its own stack(s), so this difference could be a fundamental problem.
Does anybody know a RTOS ready to use with ICC, or has anybody already tried to port FreeRTOS to ICC? I need a OS that is able to run multiple tasks with defined timing intervals. It needn’t to be preemptive, a fast task switching is from bigger importance.

Once you finish the gcc->icc port, you'll be an experienced c programmer, and the world will have a free rtos that compile with iccavr. I dont think the stack usage is a show stopper... The hw stack is always smaller than and contained inside the sw stack in icc... Is there tons of assembler in the freertos source or mostly c?

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Posted by sleepydj: Sat. Mar 27, 2004 - 05:49 PM
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sleepydj wrote:
hey,

check out uC/OS - II. There's a port for IAR, v1.40 and above.
http://www.ucos-ii.com/contents/products/ucos-ii/ports-misc.html

cheers,
jimmy

hey,

i'm sorry, i thought ICC = IAR. There is also a port available for AVR for ImageCraft on the same page.

cheers,
jimmy

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Posted by peter.sager: Sun. Mar 28, 2004 - 09:16 PM
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uC/OS II seems to be a nice OS with a lot of functions, I have seen that there are free ports to IAR and also to ICC! But these ports don't contain the whole OS, it is necessary to buy a license, it's not free!

Yes, I think tfe porting of FreeRTOS to ICC should be possible, most of the sourcecode is written in C! But the usage of the two stacks for each task would require a good piece of RAM. An alternative would be, to backup and restore only the actual stack contents for each task, I guess this would be typical 10..20 Bytes.

I have discovered, that the actual ICC-Version does include a Tiny-Licence for an RTOS, called SALVO. This OS seems to be well integrated into the ICC-IDE! SALVO is simple and requires very few of CPU-Resources! It doesn’t' use a stack for each tasks, so the task switching is only possible in the task-function itself, and not in a subroutine of a task! It should be possible to deal with this restriction in most of the smaller applications.

I will take a closer look to SALVO! On the other hand, with this restriction, it would be simple to write an own OS that manages a timer- and event-driven task switching! All I need for my project is the possibility to run multiple tasks, to handle concurrently the different interfaces. (UART1, UART2, I2C, SPI, ADC)

I'll keep on running for this topic… Peter

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Posted by haoqi: Mon. Mar 29, 2004 - 12:35 AM
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in the folders icc\examples.avr,there is a file ---ucos2_iccavr,mayby you can have some idea from it.

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Posted by alfa_quadro: Fri. Apr 16, 2004 - 11:34 AM
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There is cooperative RTOS with very good pdf documentation.

It is not free , but you can use the evaluation version ( limited to 3 tasks and 5 event) .

It is Salvo RTOS

Visit

http://www.pumpkininc.com

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Posted by EW: Fri. Apr 16, 2004 - 03:46 PM
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BTW, This post does not belong in the Projects Forum; it needs to be moved to the AVR Forum.

Moderator, can you move this?

Eric Weddington
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