RE: Starter guide for FREE-RTOS for nRF52 DK

Ashishx88 — Thu, 22 Nov 2018 07:27:46 GMT

Hi Awneil ,

1) I have been exposure on Linux development & wanted to try and learn FREE RTOS or ZEPHYR

Basically idea is to learn the FREE RTOS / ZEPHYR & then the BLUETOOTH targeting an IOT application

Again this is for purely learning purpose & hence zeroed on the board nRF52DK .

2) Will take help from the suggestion and link you shared.

Thanks for replying.

RE: Starter guide for FREE-RTOS for nRF52 DK

awneil — Wed, 21 Nov 2018 12:04:49 GMT

[quote userid="75321" url="~/f/nordic-q-a/40748/starter-guide-for-free-rtos-for-nrf52-dk"]my first FIRMWARE development project[/quote]

Do you have experience with other types of development project?

Are you familiar with programming in general? Or with microcontrollers in general?

[quote userid="75321" url="~/f/nordic-q-a/40748/starter-guide-for-free-rtos-for-nrf52-dk"]I am trying to learn FREE rtos using nRF52 DK board . [/quote]

I wouldn't have thought that's the best approach?

If your aim is to learn FreeRTOS, I would suggest that you start by gaining familiarity with FreeRTOS on a "conventional" microcontroller before adding all the extra complications of Bluetooth comms.

FreeRTOS is very well established and widely used; there must be plenty of beginner tutorials around - especially since its acquisition by Amazon.

On the other hand, I suspect that the majority of nRF52 projects manage just fine without any RTOS - so why do you feel the need for it?

EDIT

There are some FreeRTOS examples in the SDK:

http://infocenter.nordicsemi.com/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.nordic.infocenter.sdk5.v15.2.0%2Flib_rtos.html&cp=4_0_0_3_37

But remember that FreeRTOS is a 3rd-party product - nothing to do with Nordic.

So the Nordic examples assume that you are already competent with FreeRTOS - they are not there to teach you FreeRTOS.