RTEMS 4.5.1-pre3 On-Line Library

Overview RTEMS Internal Architecture

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1.5: RTEMS Internal Architecture

RTEMS can be viewed as a set of layered components that work in harmony to provide a set of services to a real-time application system. The executive interface presented to the application is formed by grouping directives into logical sets called resource managers. Functions utilized by multiple managers such as scheduling, dispatching, and object management are provided in the executive core. The executive core depends on a small set of CPU dependent routines. Together these components provide a powerful run time environment that promotes the development of efficient real-time application systems. The following figure illustrates this organization:

Subsequent chapters present a detailed description of the capabilities provided by each of the following RTEMS managers:

initialization
task
interrupt
clock
timer
semaphore
message
event
signal
partition
region
dual ported memory
I/O
fatal error
rate monotonic
user extensions
multiprocessing

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