PREVIEW: Getting Started with TI-RTOS

This in-depth, hands-on workshop quickly teaches production-level skills to craft code on any platform that supports TI-RTOS and takes you from zero to fluent in two days, saving weeks or months of development time. This workshop replaces time-consuming trial and error with accelerated learning that makes it easy to craft your application with confidence and competence.

About This Free Preview

Embedded Advantage workshops are educational, engaging, and entertaining—all at the same time. Experience the Embedded Advantage difference firsthand with FREE access to three workshop chapters:

• Chapter 0—Workshop Introduction
  Get to know Embedded Advantage, see the workshop agenda, learn the specific software and CCS revisions supported
• Chapter 1—Tools Installation
  A comprehensive walk-through of the tools installation (CCS, software libraries). This chapter alone will save you DAYS of frustration.
• Chapter 5—Introduction to TI-RTOS
  Get answers these questions: What is an RTOS? Why use an RTOS? What types of services does TI-RTOS provide? Compare/contrast Linux vs RTOS. How does the TI-RTOS Scheduler work?

What You Learn In the Full Course

• How to successfully install Code Composer Studio (CCS), Software Development Kit (SDK), and verify the tools have been installed properly
• In-depth, extensive hands-on use of CCS and TI’s software driver libraries (driverlib, SDK, etc.)
• Working knowledge of the TI-RTOS Kernel (aka SYS/BIOS, BIOS) and the various thread types—Hwi, Swi, Task, Idle—and why/when to use them
• How the device hardware (interrupts and timers) interact with TI-RTOS
• How to create a new TI-RTOS-based CCS project using dependent or independent TI-RTOS configuration projects
• Program peripherals such as GPIO to toggle an LED on the target hardware
• How to use additional TI-RTOS services such as Semaphore, Mailbox, Clock Functions, Event
• Comprehensive use of instrumentation and visualization tools such as the RTOS Object Viewer (ROV), Unified Instrumentation Architecture (UIA) and RTOS Analyzer—CPU Load, Execution Graph, Task Load, Log_printf(), loggers

Course Authors/Instructors

Eric Wilbur and Scott Specker co-authored this course and are the video instructors. Both Eric and Scott each have 10,000+ hours classroom experience training 4,000+ engineers at over 70 companies worldwide on DSPs, MCUs, MPUs, RTOS, and Linux O/S. As course developers, they have created over 30 multi-day workshops as well as thousands of pages of user manuals, start-up guides, app notes and wiki pages. They each have over 25+ years’ experience helping customers navigate hundreds of processors, development kits, software packages, and operating systems.

Eric Wilbur, Managing Partner (left) and Scott Specker, Principal Consultant (right)