Open-source embedded real-time operating system T-Kernel

Author: Yasushi Sakamura
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Publish Date: 2005-10-01
Features: Embedded Real-Time Operating System TRON, with its latest version being the content of this book, "Source-Open Embedded Real-Time Operating System T-Kernel." Based on long-term research and practical application of embedded operating systems, T-Kernel not only possesses all necessary functions but also features ease of understanding. Another important characteristic of T-Kernel is that its specifications and source code have been standardized and made open-source by the worldwide NPOT-Engine forum. As long as you adhere to the corresponding usage agreement with the T-Engine forum, you can use it for free. TRON has been widely applied not only in industrial control machines but also in information appliances and other embedded machines, achieving excellent practical results. For example, T-Kernel is used in the communication control of mobile phones, engine control of automobiles, and the control of digital cameras in various consumer products. China, as the current production base for information appliances and possessing a huge consumer market, has attracted worldwide attention. There is no doubt that the application of the open-source T-Kernel can achieve standardization of embedded technology and improve production capacity. The book explaining the most widely used embedded operating system in the world has been published in China. The T-Engine forum also plans to publish a series of related embedded technology books in the future, with the hope of increasing the number of professionals who understand T-Engine-related technologies and playing a broader role in the future development of embedded machines in China. T-Kernel is a source-open embedded real-time operating system kernel, occupying approximately 60% of the global embedded microprocessor operating system market. This book starts with an introduction to the relationship and structure of T-Kernel, T-Engine, and ITRON, and provides a detailed explanation of the T-Kernel specification, general T-Kernel specification, T-Kernel/OS functions, T-Kernel/SM functions, T-Kernel/DS functions, and T-Monitor specification, with a special focus on the T-Kernel functions and usage specifications. The book is divided into five parts: Part 1 provides a general introduction to the origin of T-Engine and the relationship and structure of T-Kernel, T-Engine, and ITRON; Part 2 provides a detailed introduction to the T-Kernel specification, general T-Kernel specification, T-Kernel/OS functions, T-Kernel/SM functions, and T-Kernel/DS functions; Part 3 provides a detailed introduction to the T-Monitor specification and the functions used; Part 4 is a chronology of T-Engine and a list of references; and Part 5 is a list of T-Kernel-related functions and error codes. Together, these five parts comprehensively and systematically explain the standard specifications of T-Kernel. This book serves as a manual for those learning and using T-Kernel and can be used as a reference for engineering technicians engaged in embedded system application development and students and teachers in relevant fields at universities and colleges.