CuRT : Compat Unicellular Real-Time operating system.

Features

• Preemptive Multi-threading
• Priority-base Round-Robin Scheduling
• Thread Management
• Semaphore Management Support
• IPC: mailbox, message queue

Licensing

Revised BSD License. Please check the file LICENSE.txt for details.

Supported Hardware

• Marvell/Intel Xscale PXA25x platforms
• Emulated ARM PXA environment by QEMU

Building and Testing

• ARM Toolchain from CodeSourcery: Sourcery G++ 2008q1 http://www.codesourcery.com/gnu_toolchains/sgpp
• Download "arm-linux" toolchain and set up the required path.
• Prepare QEMU as ARM system emulator (version >= 0.9.1)
• Perform the following commands to build CuRT and sample application $ make && cd app/shell
• Install built CuRT image into NAND flash: $ ./prepare-flash
• Launch CuRT via QEMU: $ ./run-connex
• Type "help" to get information from shell $ help

Internals

• Thread state:

  • RUNNING
  • READY
  • EVENT_WAIT
  • BLOCK
  • DELAY
  • TERMINATE

• Scheduling policy The scheduler is called in the following two cases:

  • SCHED_TIME_EXPIRE : when thread's time_quantum value is 0.
  • SCHED_THREAD_REQUEST : Request the execution for higher priority thread.

defined in prio_exist_flag

	----------------------------------------------------------------
	|0|1|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|1|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|1|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|1|
	----------------------------------------------------------------
  		|                 |                   |                     |
  		|                 |                   |                     |
	ready_list[1]     ready_list[11]    ready_list[21]         ready_list[31]
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                                                                Idle thread