Hi all,

There is Microchip appnote on multitasking (cooperative) with PIC. It's
an585. Although I haven't used it, it seems to do simple things given
limited resources of PIC.

I've been looking for a job lately, and it looks like every embedded
engineering job _requires_ knowledge of VxWorks. Too bad it won't work
with PIC so I can learn, so the job hunt goes on...  ;)

It would be very interesting to see other RTOS for PIC. I wonder how
things will be saved with context switch, especially for low end PICs;
is there enough memory for doing anything useful? I suppose watchdog
timer coule be used in limited sense for time slicing, but it will be
challenging. Please do keep the list updated if anything comes of this.


Michael Shiloh wrote:
>
> I am very interested in this as a project. I've worked with some trivial
> Multitasking executives in the past, and I currently work at Wind River
> Systems, writers of a very popular real time OS for embedded applications.
> I would very much like to kick around ideas, to develop code, and to test
> ideas. Granted, vxWorks (what we sell) is made for 32 bit high end processors,
> so I will have to rethink for the PIC world, but I still think I can
> contribute to the project.
>
> If there are objections to using this forum I'd be happy to set up a
> mailing list elsewhere for this as a project.
>
> I'm also happy to discuss this privately, if you wish
> Michael Shiloh
> Wind River Systems
> 510-749-2171
> michaels@wrs.com
> alternate email at
> michael@srl.org