FreeRTOS is one of the most popular open source embedded RTOS’s in the world. WHIS offers enhanced products and services for FreeRTOS, including:
A Joint History with FreeRTOS
FreeRTOS is a real-time operating system for microprocessors, that is free to download from FreeRTOS.org. Richard Barry created FreeRTOS in 2003 while an employee at WHIS. We worked closely with Richard, providing a safety critical upgrade to FreeRTOS called SAFERTOS®, and the flexible commercial licensing, training, and support that users needed.
In 2017 AWS announced stewardship of FreeRTOS. WHIS continues to be the market leaders when it comes to professional FreeRTOS services.
What is FreeRTOS?
FreeRTOS is an open source, real-time operating system for microcontrollers that makes small, low-power edge devices easy to program, deploy, secure, connect, and manage. It includes a kernel and a growing set of software libraries suitable for use across industry sectors and applications. This includes securely connecting your small, low-power devices to AWS cloud services like AWS IoT Core or to more powerful edge devices running AWS IoT Greengrass. FreeRTOS is built with an emphasis on reliability and ease of use.
Amazon Web Services and WITTENSTEIN high integrity systems Strategic Business Alliance
At AWS re:Invent 2017, AWS announced Amazon FreeRTOS; based on the FreeRTOS kernel it is part of the AWS Edge to Cloud IoT offering, with Richard Barry joining AWS. This enables greater investment in the FreeRTOS kernel to the benefit of developers and manufacturers bringing new edge devices to the market. AWS immediately integrated connectivity and over-the-air (OTA) update capabilities, as well as additional security enhancements. WHIS continues to support FreeRTOS with professional licensing and a migration path to our safety critical software in AWS IoT devices as part of our strategic business alliance with Amazon Web Services (AWS), as well as continuing to serve our broad customer base in industry sectors such as medical, automotive and aerospace.
About Amazon Web Services
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a secure cloud services platform, offering computing power, database storage, content delivery and other functionality to help businesses scale and grow.
FreeRTOS provides tools you need to quickly and easily deploy a microcontroller-based connected device and develop an Internet of Things (IoT) application without having to worry about the complexity of scaling across millions of devices. Once connected, IoT device applications can take advantage of all of the capabilities of the cloud or continue processing data locally with AWS Greengrass. Visit the AWS FreeRTOS Pages here.
Safety Critical IoT Applications
WHIS provides a simple upgrade path from FreeRTOS to SAFERTOS®. See our variety of resources to help with the upgrade:
SAFERTOS provides developers with a responsive, deterministic embedded Real Time Operating System (RTOS) with a Design Assurance Pack that provides an easy route to achieving certification of SAFERTOS once integrated into a Safety Product. More about SAFERTOS here.
Commercial Licensing
WHIS has always offered commercial licensing for FreeRTOS, now distributed under an MIT license, and continues to do so. Contact us for more information about our flexible licensing and our professional support, or find out more here.
SAFERTOS® comes with an industry-tailored Design Assurance Pack (DAP) that supports certification for your relevant market.
Available Design Assurance Packs include:
Industrial – IEC 61508 -1,-3,-4
Medical – FDA 510(k), IEC 62304
Automotive – ISO 26262 -2,-6,-8
Aerospace – DO178C
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