Azure RTOS ThreadX

In this module, you will:

• Learn the basic components of an RTOS
• Learn what an RTOS does

In this module, you will:

• Learn Azure RTOS ThreadX concepts such as scheduling, determinism, priorities, preemption, and threads.
• Explore the services of an RTOS and how they can be used.
• Learn about context switches.

In this module, you will:

• View an overview of Azure RTOS ThreadX services
• Learn about ThreadX primitive data types and service data types
• Learn about ThreadX memory byte pools
• Learn about memory allocation for thread stacks
• Learn about ThreadX memory block pools

In this module, you will:

• Be introduced to the basics of Azure RTOS ThreadX system development.
• Walk through a simple illustrative example of an Azure RTOS ThreadX project.
• Be given a simple but realistic scenario, identify the essential ThreadX components needed to implement that system.
• Understand the fundamentals required for an Azure RTOS ThreadX real-time solution.
• Design and debug the ThreadX solution using a hands-on approach with GitHub Codespace or Visual Studio.

In this module, you will:

• Explore the features and uses of Application Timers and the Thread Info Get services.
• Review the purpose of the internal system clock.
• Obtain a better understanding of the behavior of the Hello World project and modify some of its code.
• Use the internal system clock function to collect timing data for each cycle of the activities performed by the two threads.
• Use an Application Timer to compute and display the total number of cycles each thread completed, the average time for each cycle, and selected values provided by the thread_performance_info_get service.
• Design and debug the ThreadX solution using a hands-on approach with GitHub Codespace or Visual Studio.

In this module, you will:

• Explore the features and uses of counting semaphores and the TX_WAIT_ABORT service.
• Understand the purpose of a monitor thread.
• Use a monitor thread to detect excessive wait times by other threads and break the suspension of those threads.
• Use an application timer to compute and display the total number of cycles each thread completed, the average time for each cycle, and selected values provided by the thread_performance_info_get service.
• Design and debug the ThreadX solution using a hands-on approach with GitHub Codespace or Visual Studio.

In this module, you will:

• Use a counting semaphore in an event notification application.
• Use two threads in a producer-consumer scenario.
• Understand the difference between mutual exclusion and event notification.
• Design and debug the ThreadX solution using a hands-on approach with GitHub Codespace or Visual Studio.

In this module, you will:

• Understand how to synchronize threads using an event flags group.
• Use the Set service to clear or initialize an event flags group.
• Use the Get service to retrieve events from an event flags group.
• Design and debug the ThreadX solution using a hands-on approach with GitHub Codespace or Visual Studio.

In this module, you'll:

• Understand how to send messages from one thread to another thread by using a message queue.
• Understand how to receive messages from a queue.
• Understand how to send a message to the front of a queue, rather than to the rear of the queue.
• Design and debug the ThreadX solution using a hands-on approach with GitHub Codespace or Visual Studio.

In this module, you will:

• Understand the ThreadX-unique concept of event-chaining.
• Understand how to have one thread suspend on multiple objects.
• Understand the concept of notification callback functions.
• Design and debug the ThreadX solution using a hands-on approach with GitHub Codespace or Visual Studio.

In this module, you will:

• Understand the dangers of priority inversion
• Understand how to use priority inheritance to avoid priority inversion problems.
• Understand how to use preemption threshold to avoid priority inversion problems.
• Understand the differences between these two solutions to the priority inversion problem.
• Design and debug a ThreadX solution using a hands-on approach with GitHub Codespace or Visual Studio.
• Study the priority inversion problem, and compare the priority inheritance and preemption threshold solutions.

In this module, you will:

• Review the concepts and features of ThreadX.
• Explore the components of Azure RTOS.
• Explore the ThreadX user guide.
• Explore the online ThreadX book.