Real-time Operating Systems Book 1: The Theory

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.

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.

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.

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!

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 explains the core concepts of RTOS in am extremely clear manner. Not just explaining a concept, but shows the whole story including what is the problem, why is it relevant, what is a simple solution, what is the drawback of the solution, how to improve it. A must read.

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.

This is a great overview of the fundamentals of RTOS for embedded programming without being specific to any one vendor. If you are new to RTOS programming and need a simple straightforward text to explain how it works - this text is a great choice.