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RTOS Development Roadmap

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Develop placement-ready RTOS skills for embedded and edge systems: scheduling, IPC, synchronization, timing, debugging, and system reliability.

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Phase 1: RTOS Fundamentals

Tasks, States, Scheduler, and Ticks

Understand the kernel model that drives preemptive multitasking systems.

Stacks, Heaps, and Memory Safety

Prevent some of the most common RTOS failures: stack overflows, fragmentation, and unsafe shared access.

Phase 2: IPC and Synchronization

Queues, Mailboxes, Event Flags, and Timers

Choose the right RTOS primitive for each communication pattern.

Mutexes, Semaphores, and Priority Inversion

Use synchronization correctly and avoid classic scheduling pathologies.

Phase 3: Timing and Debugging

ISR Integration and Real-Time Response

Connect interrupts to RTOS tasks safely while preserving timing guarantees.

Tracing, Profiling, and Runtime Analysis

Measure what the scheduler is doing and diagnose starvation, overruns, and missed deadlines.

Phase 4: Industrial Readiness

Production RTOS Architecture Patterns

Design systems the way embedded product teams expect: layered, testable, and failure-aware.

Placement Projects and Interview Preparation

Translate RTOS knowledge into portfolio work and interview-ready explanations.