RTOS like freertos or picos18

[Davng]

Hi, somebody can port some rtos like freertos (www.freertos.org) or picos18 (www.picos18.com) to use it with ccs pic compiler (PCH)?

Both rtos works/compile well with c18 (ANSI compatible) but with ccs (ANSI like implementation) they present some problems.

thnx in advance

davng

[PCM programmer]

CCS is testing their own RTOS and has put put a request for
beta testers. See this section on the following page:
Beta Test Opportunities
http://www.ccsinfo.com/news.shtml

[valemike]

I know some RTOSes, like the Salvo rtos for pic and ucOS-II for PIC require either recursion capability and/or pointers to functions. Compilers that do not support either/or cannot compile the RTOS.

Do you know if the beta RTOS from CCS uses PCWH or just PCW? I have PCWH here at work. (PCWH is a superset of PCW, right? If so, then I just answered my own question).

I'm assuming the RTOS will be geared for the 18F family, right?

[Tom-H-PIC]

Well first let me say this I signed up to help test the new compiler and RTOS when it first hit the CCS web site news page or at least in the first or second month. That was on 02-11-2004 and I received the automated email reply all was normal so I forgot a bout it for two month and I sent another email and this is the reply I got back.

04-09-04
This message is a reply to CCS e-mail id: 4D4067

We have you on the beta test list. The RTOS has not yet passed all our in house testing so we have not sent it out for beta test yet. It should be ready for your testing sometime this month.

We will be sending out an e-mail when it is ready.


Well I know the people at CCS are busy, I see a lot of new development kits, programmers and compiler updates.
But I think that one of two things happened or both.
1. The sales people put that RTOS thing out there to see what response they would get.
2. With the first or second run of the RTOS and the new compiler fell on its face and the software engineers got pulled off the project to deal with existing product issues or the new dsPIC part of the existing compiler.

So at this time I think that the RTOS and the new compile is vapor ware.

But CCS needs to work on some other things also!
Back in Nov. of 2003 CCS did a big survey on how to improve the compiler and IDE.
I still have not seen any of that in the IDE or the compiler improvements.
Like for the IDE the include file window being able to display long paths in the window.
Make the print out so that the path if it is long will not print over top of its self.
Pointers to function!
Pointers to constants in ROM!

Don’t get me wrong I am vary pleased with the CCS PIC compiler I have the full set with IDE (PCWH) and a have a three year running maintenance also three of the ICDs.
Unless I get pressure from the top or the outside I will be staying with CCS and its products.

I also think that the CCS software engineers do a wonderful job on updates and bug fixes on the compiler and IDE.

This form needs to cut CCS software engineers some slack all of you guys are vary hard on these people!

It’s not like all of us produce perfect bug free code the first and every time on our projects!

Will that is my two cents on the whole thing!

Tom