Embedded software article: RTOS Revealed #18

My latest article on embedded.com has been published. This piece is the eighteenth installment of the RTOS Revealed series, which will continue to appear through the rest of 2018. The series will cover every aspect of real time operating systems.

Event flag groups: utility services and data structures

In this article, I complete my look at event flag groups in an RTOS …

Here are all the articles in the series:

Introducing RTOS Revealed
Program structure and real time
Tasks and scheduling
Tasks, the context switch and interrupts
Inter-task communication and synchronization
Other RTOS services
Nucleus SE – an introduction
Nucleus SE – internals and deployment
The scheduler – implementation
The scheduler – options and context save
Tasks – configuration and API introduction
Task utility services
Task data structures and unsupported API calls
Partition memory: introduction and basic services
Partition memory: utility services and data structures
Signals
Event flag groups: introduction and basic services
Event flag groups: utility services and data structures

I hope that you find the series interesting and look forward to your input by comment or email or via social media.