Azure Real-Time Operating System
Published date: 19 May, 2020
Azure Real-Time Operating System is now generally available. This is a small, fast, reliable and easy-to-use real-time operating system for connecting deeply embedded sensors, devices and gateways from the edge to the Internet of Things (IoT). A real-time operating system helps embedded developers ensure that their devices and equipment quickly and reliably respond to specific actions. It is valuable for everything from high-value industrial applications to inexpensive consumer devices and is ideal for devices like microcontrollers with a single processing core. Learn more about real-time operating systems.
High-end or hard, real-time systems provide deterministic performance, guaranteed to perform within a certain margin of error with worst case response times in the tens of microseconds. A best-in-class real-time operating system also provides built-in tools to protect shared memory and power resources, integrated components to accelerate software development and capabilities to keep the equipment secure. All of this with just 2 KB of flash memory and 1 KB of RAM at a low purchase price.
The complete source code for the Azure Real-Time Operating System embedded development suite—including code for the leading real-time-operating system, Azure Real-Time Operating System ThreadX—is now available on GitHub. Several improvements to Azure Real-Time Operating System are also now available to help you build high-performing devices that seamlessly connect to the power of Azure.