BeRTOS

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BeRTOS
Website	www.bertos.org
Company/ developer	Develer s.r.l. and BeRTOS community
Programmed in	ANSI C
OS family	Real-time operating systems
Source model	Open source
Latest stable release	1.0.0 / May, 2008
Marketing target	Embedded devices
Supported platforms	ARM, Atmel AVR, x86, DSP56K, 80196
Kernel type	Microkernel
License	Modified GPL v2
Working state	Current

BeRTOS is a real-time operating system designed for embedded systems.

It is distributed under a modified GPL license with a special exception that grants application proprietary code the right to remain closed source while maintaining as open source BeRTOS code itself.

It has a modular design, that allows to run on different architectures, ranging from tiny 8-bit microcontrollers like Atmel AVR, passing from ARM architecture and arriving to Linux and Microsoft Windows hosted applications.

BeRTOS' multitasking kernel implements some IPC primitives like:

In addition to the kernel, BeRTOS has several generic peripheral drivers (timer, serial, ADC, motors, LCD display, NTC sensors, keyboard, buzzer, memories), algorithms (hash table, CRC, MD2, entropy pool, RLE), communication protocols and a graphic subsystem for simple displays.