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Zephyr RTOS - Guides

Summary

The following set of tutorials are intended to help students get setup with Zephyr RTOS on their newly setup virtual machines (Debian based), and to get a basic application to compile.

These tutorials are intended to be attempted in order, particularly the first few.

Topic Brief

  • OS.1 - Getting Started
    • Cloning and setting up Zephyr RTOS (installing toolchains and other required packages), on Debian/Ubuntu.
    • Building and flashing sample blinky app
  • OS.2 - First Program
    • Setting up and building a Zephyr application (outside Zephyr source directory)
    • Setting up app working directories
  • OS.2.1 - Building Tips
    • Basics of the build system
    • Tips to customize build system
    • Including config files
  • OS.2.2 - Implementing Libraries
    • Library directory structures
    • Adding library to app build system
  • OS.4 - Threading
    • Introduction to threads
    • Thread implementation in Zephyr RTOS
  • OS.5.1 - Thread Synchronization
    • Introduction to thread synchronization
    • Semphore, Mutex and Condition Variables implementation
  • OS.5.2 - Thread Communication (ITC)
    • Introduction to inter-thread-communication (ITC)
    • Basic communication primitives
    • Implementation of Zephyr message queues.

Notes:

  • The following tutorials were created with reference to Zephyr RTOS V2.7.XX.

  • Through these guide, the reference to the environment variable (REPO_TOP) refers to the top level directory of within tutedocs.

Last update: 2022-02-17