Real-time Operating Systems: Book 1 - The Theory (The engineering of real-time embedded systems)

God send. RTOS agnostic which makes it useful regardless of your RTOS of choice, and the information in this book won't age like other RTOS specific texts do. I feel like it covers all of the bases one needs to hit in order to understand what RTOS is, when to use RTOS, and general strategies to successfully implement an RTOS in your system. The ID'ing of pitfalls, performance trade-offs, and aspects that other professional texts just don't get into, was great. So many books talk about things working, but never how they fail which is what actually happens in the real world. This book doesn't ignore reality when discussing theory, which is the key difference between it and other resources I own. Could use a little bit more proof-reading/editing, but otherwise well worth the price of admission.

Waste of money, brains and time.I am a bit over half-way through this book, and have yet to read anything specifically about RT. There has been a lot of review of basic OS material, and though it is superficial, I haven't noticed anything glaringly inaccurate, for which I give a second star in my review. But 50 pages in (out of ~200), the book takes two pages to introduce the data race! If the concept of a race condition is so new to you that you need two pages' worth of introduction, then you aren't ready for RTOS. If your OS theory is so rusty that you need to be reminded, then you should reread your undergrad OS textbook, because you've probably forgotten some other fundamental things as well. But, halfway in, and no material that I haven't known for... never mind how many years? I'm bailing. Unfortunately, ordering a dead-tree edition from Amazon, waiting for it to be delivered, and reading into it, takes time that could have been spent learning what I actually need to know. Like, yesterday. This is time that I have now lost.There is a second book in this series; I do not intend to order a copy.You might be encountering this book because your employer sent you to a training seminar. In that case, congratulations, your employer loves you and cares about your professional development; this is rare these days. Show your gratitude by buying a better book, and reading it in your hotel room in the evenings.

I really learnt a lot from this book. Not just about RTOSs but about embedded systems in general despite the fact that I have been using microprocessors for more than 40 years (since the Motorola 6800 became available).I would recommend this book to advanced developers of embedded systems who are being persuaded to utilize an RTOS by more and more processor vendors. This book does an outstanding job of highlighting the serious issues to be considered and should help many developers avoid some of the pitfalls.Money well spent!

A little verbose, and most of the material can probably be found online for free, but good intro to the pros and cons of RTOSs including material on the dangers of deadlock, priority inversion and techniques to avoid this.

The author provides an outstanding introduction and explanation of the RTOS with all of the capabilities and challenges that go along with it. The style of writing is so easy to follow that it reads like a good novel! The practical nature of the material and examples of real-world applications are able to really tie things together. This will prove to be an outstanding reference book to me for years to come.

An advanced book meant for people already somewhat familiar with these topics. A lot of things aren't explained and are assumed to already be known (what an interrupt is, what a serial communication is, ect). Otherwise a good product. I wish there was more of an explanation though of these terms and ideas used.

This book provides a concise introduction to RTOS concepts that is very useful for embedded developers. I will be using this book and the author's Book 2 to get newer developers at work up to speed with using an RTOS, specifically FreeRTOS.

A good introduction for students or professionals who want to understand real-time operating systems. I'm enjoying it and learning much.

Very good

I found the book to be a good overview of the main concepts of embedded systems and OSs in general, but if someone already has some experience in the field, or even in some other branches of system software development, and wants some more details on the topic, one should then look elsewhere.

Wonderful practical book on operating system. Design of RTOS and deeper understand ing of its working is explained in lucid way. A must read for students and practicing engineers.

Great and affordable book on real-time operating systems.

he leido muchos libros sobre este tema, y este es uno de los que más me gusta, lo cual no quiere decir el mejor.