Getting Started with TI-RTOS: Chapter 6—TI-RTOS mechanics

In this video, Eric Wilbur and Scott Specker of Embedded Advantage describe the objectives, agenda, and lab goals for Chapter 6 of the Getting Started with TI-RTOS workshop. 

Chapter 6 covers these topics and answers these questions:

Creating a TI-RTOS Project

• How do you create a starter (empty) project when using TI-RTOS?
• What is a step-by-step method for using an example out of TI Resource Explorer to create a starter TI-RTOS project?
• Can someone help de-mystify all of the starter examples in the Simplelink SDK?

Lab 6A – Creating an Empty TI-RTOS Driver Project

• Create an empty project using TI starting examples from TI Resource Explorer

Basic RTOS Configuration

• How does the TI-RTOS configuration (.cfg) file work and what is contained inside of it?
• How do you add services to TI-RTOS statically?
• How do you add services to TI-RTOS dynamically?

Using IDLE

• How do you add the Idle service to TI-RTOS?
• How do you add a function to the Idle thread in TI-RTOS?

RTOS Object Viewer (ROV)

• What is ROV? What is the RTOS Object Viewer?
• How do you use the RTOS Object Viewer (ROV)?
• What is the best tool to use to debug TI-RTOS application?

BIOS Footprint & Timing Benchmarks

• What is the TI-RTOS Footprint?
• How much program space does TI-RTOS take?
• How much data RAM does TI-RTOS take?
• How fast is TI-RTOS?
• Can TI-RTOS be used in a real-time application?

Lab 6B – Using Idle

• Add Idle function to an existing TI-RTOS application 
• How do you use BIOS_start(); ?
• How do you use BIOS_exit(); ?