Getting Started with TI-RTOS is an in-depth workshop that quickly teaches production-level skills to craft code on any platform that supports TI-RTOS. Whether live or on-demand, this workshop provides hands-on, accelerated learning that takes you from zero to fluent in just days, saving weeks or months of development time.
Eric Wilbur & Scott Specker, Workshop Authors/Instructors
Formerly known as SYS/BIOS, or just BIOS, TI-RTOS is a real-time operating system (RTOS) used on most Texas Instruments processor/MCU platforms—SimpleLink (MSP432X, CC13XX, CC26XX, CC32XX), Cortex M3/M4, Cortex A8/9/15, Multi-core (C66X), C6000, or C2000.
While working for Texas Instruments, Eric Wilbur created and taught this workshop to customers worldwide. Since 2015, he continued to update and offer this course in association with Texas Instruments. In 2019, Eric Wilbur and Scott Specker, both former TI worldwide instructors, redesigned and updated this course with a new course framework, new student materials, and new professional quality videos.
Eric Wilbur and Scott Specker co-authored this course and are the video and live instructors. Both Eric and Scott each have 10,000+ hours classroom experience training 4,000+ engineers at over 70 companies worldwide on DSPs, MCUs, MPUs, RTOS, and Linux O/S. As course developers, they have created over 30 multi-day workshops as well as thousands of pages of user manuals, start-up guides, app notes and wiki pages. They each have over 25+ years’ experience helping customers navigate hundreds of processors, development kits, software packages, and operating systems.
How to successfully install Code Composer Studio (CCS), Software Development Kit (SDK), and verify the tools have been installed properly
In-depth, extensive hands-on use of CCS and TI’s software driver libraries (driverlib, SDK, etc.)
Working knowledge of the TI-RTOS Kernel (aka SYS/BIOS, BIOS) and the various thread types—Hwi, Swi, Task, Idle—and why/when to use them
How the device hardware (interrupts and timers) interact with TI-RTOS
How to create a new TI-RTOS-based CCS project using dependent or independent TI-RTOS configuration projects
Program peripherals such as GPIO to toggle an LED on the target hardware
How to use additional TI-RTOS services such as Semaphore, Mailbox, Clock Functions, Event
Comprehensive use of instrumentation and visualization tools such as the RTOS Object Viewer (ROV), Unified Instrumentation Architecture (UIA) and RTOS Analyzer—CPU Load, Execution Graph, Task Load, Log_printf(), loggers