DZone
IoT Zone
Thanks for visiting DZone today,
Edit Profile
  • Manage Email Subscriptions
  • How to Post to DZone
  • Article Submission Guidelines
Sign Out View Profile
  • Post an Article
  • Manage My Drafts
Over 2 million developers have joined DZone.
Log In / Join
  • Refcardz
  • Trend Reports
  • Webinars
  • Zones
  • |
    • Agile
    • AI
    • Big Data
    • Cloud
    • Database
    • DevOps
    • Integration
    • IoT
    • Java
    • Microservices
    • Open Source
    • Performance
    • Security
    • Web Dev
DZone > IoT Zone > FreeRTOS Kernel Awareness for Eclipse: NXP Release

FreeRTOS Kernel Awareness for Eclipse: NXP Release

Erich Styger provides an overview of NXP's release for their Kernel Awareness for FreeRTOS in Eclipse with screenshots and links.

Erich Styger user avatar by
Erich Styger
·
Jul. 09, 16 · IoT Zone · News
Like (1)
Save
Tweet
2.90K Views

Join the DZone community and get the full member experience.

Join For Free

NXP has released their Kernel Awareness for FreeRTOS in Eclipse (Kinetis Design Studio):

Image title

The plugin was showcased at FTF 2016 in Austin (see “NXP FTF Hands-On with FreeRTOS Task Aware Debugger“), now it is available on NXP web site.

Installation

The preferred way to install the plugin is with an Eclipse upate. Use the menu and point to the following update site: http://freescale.com/lgfiles/updates/Eclipse/KDS/

Image title

Then go through the installation process. Restart Eclipse at the end of the installation.

The plugin can be downloaded from www.nxp.com/kds and then installed into Eclipse too:

Image title

Views

The plugin adds a ‘FreeRTOS’ menu under the debug perspective:

Image title

Otherwise the FreeRTOS views are available under Window > Show View:

Image title


The Heap Usage view shows the heap scheme selected with all the memory blocks:

Image title

The Timer List view shows all the software timers in the system:

Image title

The Task List is probably the one which I’m using the most: it shows all the tasks with the stack usage:

Image title

In Queue List I have all the queues, semaphore and mutex listed with their data:

Image title

Summary

After FTF, the plugin is now available for download. I have it working in KDS V3.2.0 and it works with my latest FreeRTOS V9.0.0. It already helped me to find a problem in my application which I need to fix now.

Happy kerneling!

Eclipse FreeRTOS Kernel (operating system) Release (agency)

Opinions expressed by DZone contributors are their own.

Popular on DZone

  • What SREs Can Learn From the Atlassian Nightmare Outage of 2022
  • 10 Steps to Become an Outstanding Java Developer
  • Querying Kafka Topics Using Presto
  • Maven Tutorial: Nice and Easy [Video]

Comments

IoT Partner Resources

X

ABOUT US

  • About DZone
  • Send feedback
  • Careers
  • Sitemap

ADVERTISE

  • Advertise with DZone

CONTRIBUTE ON DZONE

  • Article Submission Guidelines
  • MVB Program
  • Become a Contributor
  • Visit the Writers' Zone

LEGAL

  • Terms of Service
  • Privacy Policy

CONTACT US

  • 600 Park Offices Drive
  • Suite 300
  • Durham, NC 27709
  • support@dzone.com
  • +1 (919) 678-0300

Let's be friends:

DZone.com is powered by 

AnswerHub logo