Learn the Essentials of MQX RTOS: Free Online Training Available

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Essentials of MQX RTOS Application Development

Free Online Training Series with Videos, Tutorials, and Example Software!

10-Part Series - even more coming later

[Scroll down to see all Sessions]

• Session 1: MQX Architecture and Initialization (20 min)
  • Creating tasks
  • Setting priorities
  • Scheduling
  • Synchronization concepts
  • Introduction to drivers
• Session 2: Designing for a Multi-Tasking Environment (15 min)
  • Writing applications in a Multi-Tasking Environment
    • Super Loop Programming Limitations, Task Coding Structure
  • Task States
  • What is a blocking call?
  • Task Context Switching
• Session 3: Task Management and the Scheduler (21 min)
  • How does the MQX scheduler work?
  • Scheduling Policies
    • Priority-based, Time-slice (Round Robin)
  • Selecting Priority Levels for Tasks
  • What is the Task Template List?
  • Using Tasks in your Application
• Session 4: Synchronization and Message Passing (17 min)
  • What is Synchronization?  What is it used for?
    • Data Flow, Control Flow, Mutual Exclusion
  • Synchronization Options
    • Events, Semaphores, Mutexes, Message Passing
  • Message Passing
    • Types of Message Pools, Message Pool Creation, Sending and Receiving, Light-weight Message Passing
• Session 5: Introduction to Drivers (28 min)
  • Driver Architecture and options
    • Block vs. Byte modes, POSIX drivers, Low level drivers, Polled vs. Interrupt modes
  • Driver Initialization
  • I/O Subsystem (POSIX)
  • Serial Driver Details
  • Light-weight GPIO Driver Details
• Session 6: Interrupts (15 min)
  • Interrupts and the scheduler
  • Techniques for writing an ISR
  • Hardware Vector Table
  • Nested Interrupts
  • MQX Interrupt ISR Table
  • Installing ISRs
  • Default Interrupt handler
• Session 7: Light Weight Events (15 min)
  • Overview of events
  • Working with light-weight & full-featured events
  • Ways to wait on an event
• Session 8: Light Weight Timers (17 min)
  • One shot vs periodic timers
  • Use cases for timers
  • Working with correlated timers
  • Writing timer Interrupt Service Routines (ISRs)
  • Light weight timers & timer queues
  • Timers and the timer task
• Session 9: Light Weight ADC Driver (18 min)
  • Light-weight ADC driver (LWADC) Details
  • Attributes of ADCs
  • Configuring and reading ADCs
  • Scaling the ADC output
• Session 10: Logging (23 min)
  • What is logging?  Why use logs?
  • Working with light-weight logs
  • Working with kernel logging
    • Logging MQX function and ISR entries and exits, task and stack usage
  • Working with full-featured logs

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