Porting and systematic testing of an embedded RTOS

Author

Vishwakarma, Anil K. ; Suresh, K.V. ; Singh, U.K.

Author_Institution

Res. Center Imarat, DRDO, Hyderabad, India

fYear

2014

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

The use of a Real-Time Operating System (RTOS) is now quite common in embedded systems because of the requirement for multi-tasking. We present the details of our port of the popular MicroC/OS-II RTOS to an avionics platform based on a PowerPC 7410 processor with multiple peripherals including RS422, MIL1553, digital IO and timers. Also, the systematic testing that we have carried out to validate the port is also presented. Further, detailed performance measurements have been carried out, and we also compare the performance of our MicroC/OS-II port with that of RT-Linux on the same platform.

Keywords

avionics; embedded systems; microprocessor chips; operating systems (computers); peripheral interfaces; MIL1553 peripheral; MicroC/OS-II RTOS; PowerPC 7410 processor; PowerPC based avionics platform; RS422 peripheral; digital IO peripheral; embedded RTOS porting; multitasking requirement; performance measurements; real-time operating system; systematic embedded RTOS testing; timer peripheral; Assembly; Context; Ports (Computers); Real-time systems; Registers; Switches; Testing; Embedded; MicroC/OS; Porting; RTOS;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer and Communications Technologies (ICCCT), 2014 International Conference on

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICCCT2.2014.7066752

Filename

7066752