This book is written for serious embedded systems programmers, consultants, hobbyists, and students interested in understanding the inner workings of a real-time kernel. ¿C/OS-III is not just a great learning platform, but also a full commercial-grade software package, ready to be part of a wide range of products.

¿C/OS-III is a highly portable, ROMable, scalable, preemptive real-time, multitasking kernel designed specifically to address the demanding requirements of today¿s embedded systems. ¿C/OS-III is the successor to the highly popular ¿C/OS-II real-time kernel but can use most of ¿C/OS-II¿s ports with minor modifications. Some of the features of ¿C/OS-III are:

Preemptive multitasking with round-robin scheduling of tasks at the same priority Supports and unlimited number of tasks and other kernel objects Rich set of services: semaphores, mutual exclusion semaphores with full priority inheritance, event flags, message queues, timers, fixed-size memory block management, and more. Built-in performance measurements