rtic/README.md

# Real-Time Interrupt-driven Concurrency

A concurrency framework for building real-time systems.

Formerly known as Real-Time For the Masses.

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## Features

- **Tasks** as the unit of concurrency [^1]. Tasks can be *event triggered*
  (fired in response to asynchronous stimuli) or spawned by the application on
  demand.

- **Message passing** between tasks. Specifically, messages can be passed to
  software tasks at spawn time.

- **A timer queue** [^2]. Software tasks can be scheduled to run at some time
  in the future. This feature can be used to implement periodic tasks.

- Support for prioritization of tasks and, thus, **preemptive multitasking**.

- **Efficient and data race free memory sharing** through fine grained *priority
  based* critical sections [^1].

- **Deadlock free execution** guaranteed at compile time. This is a stronger
  guarantee than what's provided by [the standard `Mutex`
  abstraction][std-mutex].

[std-mutex]: https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/sync/struct.Mutex.html

- **Minimal scheduling overhead**. The task scheduler has minimal software
  footprint; the hardware does the bulk of the scheduling.

- **Highly efficient memory usage**: All the tasks share a single call stack and
  there's no hard dependency on a dynamic memory allocator.

- **All Cortex-M devices are fully supported**.

- This task model is amenable to known WCET (Worst Case Execution Time) analysis
  and scheduling analysis techniques.

### Crate `cortex-m` 0.6 vs 0.7 in RTIC 0.5.x

The crate `cortex-m` 0.7 started using trait `InterruptNumber` for interrupts instead of `Nr` from `bare-metal`. In order to preserve backwards compatibility, RTIC 0.5.x will keep using `cortex-m` 0.6 by default. `cortex-m` 0.7 can be enabled using the feature `cortex-m-7` and disabling default features:

```
cortex-m-rtic = { version = "0.5.8", default-features = false, features = ["cortex-m-7"] }
```

RTIC 1.0.0 already uses `cortex-m` 0.7 by default.

## [User documentation](https://rtic.rs)

Documentation for the [development version](https://rtic.rs/dev).

## [API reference](https://rtic.rs/stable/api/)

## [Community provided examples repo][examples]

[examples]: https://github.com/rtic-rs/rtic-examples

## Chat

Join us and talk about RTIC in the [Matrix room][matrix-room].

Weekly meeting notes can be found over at [HackMD][hackmd]

[matrix-room]: https://matrix.to/#/#rtic:matrix.org
[hackmd]: https://hackmd.io/@xmis9JvZT8Gvo9lOEKyZ4Q/SkBJKsjuH

## Contributing

New features and big changes should go through the RFC process in the
[dedicated RFC repository][rfcs].

[rfcs]: https://github.com/rtic-rs/rfcs

## Running tests locally

To check all `Run-pass tests` locally on your `thumbv6m-none-eabi` or `thumbv7m-none-eabi` target device, run

```console
$ cargo xtask --target <your target>
#                       ˆˆˆˆˆˆˆˆˆˆˆˆ
#                   e.g. thumbv7m-none-eabi
```

## Acknowledgments

This crate is based on the [Real-Time For the Masses language][rtfm-lang]
created by the Embedded Systems group at [Luleå University of Technology][ltu],
led by [Prof. Per Lindgren][perl].

[rtfm-lang]: http://www.rtfm-lang.org/
[ltu]: https://www.ltu.se/?l=en
[perl]: https://www.ltu.se/staff/p/pln-1.11258?l=en

## References

[^1]: Eriksson, J., Häggström, F., Aittamaa, S., Kruglyak, A., & Lindgren, P.
   (2013, June). Real-time for the masses, step 1: Programming API and static
   priority SRP kernel primitives. In Industrial Embedded Systems (SIES), 2013
   8th IEEE International Symposium on (pp. 110-113). IEEE.

[^2]: Lindgren, P., Fresk, E., Lindner, M., Lindner, A., Pereira, D., & Pinho,
   L. M. (2016). Abstract timers and their implementation onto the arm cortex-m
   family of mcus. ACM SIGBED Review, 13(1), 48-53.

## License

All source code (including code snippets) is licensed under either of

- Apache License, Version 2.0 ([LICENSE-APACHE](LICENSE-APACHE) or
  [https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0][L1])
- MIT license ([LICENSE-MIT](LICENSE-MIT) or
  [https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT][L2])

[L1]: https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
[L2]: https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT

at your option.

The written prose contained within the book is licensed under the terms of the
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[https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode][L3]).

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