Selection of RTOS for an Efficient Design of Embedded Systems

Abstract

Real Time Operating System (RTOS) is a basic building block of most of the Embedded Systems (ES). There are wide ranges of RTOS’s available to the designers/ developers of ES’s ranging from RTOS for robotics to home appliances. Each application demands a specialized set of requirements and to meet these requirements the designer needs to select the RTOS, which meets the desired requirements. It is a critical task for him/her and time consuming because it involves to know all the specifications of different RTOS and there are various RTOS’s available in the market that include micro kernels to commercial RTOS’s. So it is the task of the designer to select the suitable RTOS from the vast list of RTOS’s. The design space available to any RTOS is very large and there are countless set of characteristics such as Development