Beginner's guides to FreeRTOS
Our beginner's guides are here to help you get up to speed quickly and easily with FreeRTOS. With step-by-step instructions, expert tips, and helpful examples, you'll be able to quickly learn the skills you need to get started and see real progress.
Understand the concept
RTOS fundamentals
Understand the basics of RTOS (Real time operation system).
Getting started
FreeRTOS kernel quick start guide
Learn how to get FreeRTOS running on your device as quickly as possible.
Try it out
Build your first project
Follow the instructions on the RTOS port documentation page to locate the required project within the FreeRTOS directory structure, then open and build the demo project.
Learn about the ecosystem
FreeRTOS libraries and 3rd party tools
Follow the instructions on the RTOS port documentation page to locate the required project within the FreeRTOS directory structure, then open and build the demo project.
Special Topic: Get started with AWS IoT
FreeRTOS + AWS IoT solutions
Follow the instructions on the RTOS port documentation page to locate the required project within the FreeRTOS directory structure, then open and build the demo project.
Get support
Join the FreeRTOS community
Meet the FreeRTOS community, learn from experts, and get your questions answered.
More tutorials
Richard Barry • 20 Jan 2023
DevCon23 - Refactoring FreeRTOS for the Next 20 Years
In this talk, we will explore the next 20 years with Amazon's involvement, including the technical roadmap, today's design, and distribution philosophy.
FreeRTOS team • 20 Jan 2023
RTOS tutorial - Using an RTOS on small embedded computers
This provides a tutorial on writing applications that use an RTOS on memory constrained microcontrollers.
Using future-proofed Microcontroller Designs with FreeRTOS
In this session, discover how to overcome challenges in development acceleration while ensuring firmware integrity and longevity, how that ties into Long Term Support releases, and what that means for an open source project in development for more than 15 years.
Using FreeRTOS with the Raspberry Pi Pico
In this blog series, we will explore writing embedded applications for the Raspberry Pi Pico using FreeRTOS.
Symmetric Multiprocessing (SMP) with FreeRTOS and Raspberry Pi Pico
SMP support in the FreeRTOS Kernel enables one instance of the FreeRTOS kernel to schedule tasks across multiple identical processor cores, which can be helpful for embedded applications in areas like IoT. This session will showcase the FreeRTOS Raspberry Pi Pico port to demonstrate support for SMP in the FreeRTOS Kernel.
Building Applications with RISC-V and FreeRTOS
Get the skills that enable you to build embedded systems with RTOS capabilities for real-time applications.
