Awesome Zephyr RTOS

A curated list of awesome Zephyr RTOS (Zephyr Project) resoures.

Contents

• Zephyr core components
• Guides
• Best Practices
• Suggested uses
• API reference
• Zephyr modules
• Virtualization
• Hardware Abstraction
• Releases
• VSCode extensions
• Development containers
• Development frameworks
• Blog posts
• Videos

Zephyr core components

• Zephyr - Zephyr RTOS.
• west - Meta tool.
• cmake - Build system.
• Make - Build tool (option 1).
• Ninja - Build tool (option 2).
• Kconfig - Build configuration.
• devicetree - Hardware description.

Guides

Zephyr v2.6.99

• Getting Started Guide
• Beyond the Getting Started Guide
• User and Developer Guides
• Secure Coding
• Board Porting Guide
• Devicetree Guide
• Architecture Porting Guide
• Architecture-related Guides
• Contribution Guidelines

Best Practices

Zephyr v2.6.99

• Kconfig - Tips and Best Practices

Suggested uses

Zephyr v2.6.99

• Kernel Services
  • Scheduling, Interrupts, and Synchronization
    • Threads
    • Scheduling
    • System Threads
    • Workqueue Threads
    • Zephyr Without Threads
    • Interrupts
    • Polling API
    • Semaphores
    • Mutexes
    • Condition Variables
    • Symmetric Multiprocesssing
  • Data Passing
    • FIFOs
    • LIFOs
    • Stacks
    • Message Queue
    • Mailboxes
    • Pipes
  • Memory Management
    • Memory Heaps
    • Memory Slabs
  • Timing
    • Timers
  • Other
    • CPU Idling
    • Atomic services
    • Floating Point Services
    • C++ Support for Applications

API reference

Zephyr v2.6.99

• API Status

• Audio
  • codec - The Audio Codec API provides access to digital audio codecs.
  • dmic - The audio DMIC interface provides access to digital microphones.
  • i2s - The I2S (Inter-IC Sound) API provides support for the standard I2S interface as well as common non-standard extensions such as PCM Short/Long Frame Sync and Left/Right Justified Data Formats.
• Asynchronous Notification
• Bluetooth
• Crypto - Crypto (hardware) related functionalities.
• Devicetree
• Device Driver Model
• Display Interface
• Error Detection And Correction (EDAC)
• File Systems
• Formatted Output
• Kernel Services
  • Scheduling, Interrupts, and Synchronization
    • Threads
    • Workqueue Threads
    • Interrupts
    • Polling
    • Semaphores
    • User Mode Semaphores
    • Mutexes
    • Futex Mutexes
    • User Mode Mutexes
    • Condition Variables
  • Data Passing
    • Queues
    • FIFOs
    • LIFOs
    • Stacks
    • Message Queues
    • Mailboxes
    • Pipes
  • Memory Management
    • Memory Heap
    • Memory Slabs
  • Timing
    • Kernel Timing
    • Timers
  • Other
    • CPU Idling
    • Atomic Services
    • Floating Point Services
    • Version
    • Fatal Errors
• C standard library - minimal/newlib.
• Logging
• Memory Management
  • Demand Paging
• Miscellaneous
  • Checksum
    • CRC
• Structured Data
  • JSON
  • JWT
• Data Structures
  • Single-linked list
    • Single-linked List
    • Flagged List
  • Doubly-linked List
  • Multi Producer Single Consumer Packet Buffer
  • Balanced Red/Black Tree
  • Ring Buffers
• Modbus
• Peripherals
  • ADC
  • Counter
  • Clock Control
  • DAC
  • DMA
  • EC Host Command
  • EEPROM
  • Entropy
  • Flash
    • User API
    • Implementation Interface API
  • GNA
  • GPIO
  • Hardware Information
  • I2C EEPROM Slave
  • I2C
  • IPM
  • KSCAN
  • LED
  • Pinmux
  • PWM
  • PS/2
  • PECI
  • Regulators
  • RTC
  • Sensors
  • SPI
  • UART
  • Watchdog
  • Video
  • eSPI
• Power Management
  • Power Management Hook Interface
  • System Power Management APIs
  • Device Power Management API - The SOC interface and application use these API to perform power management operations on the devices.
  • Device Runtime Power Management API - The Device Drivers use these API to perform device runtime power management operations on the devices.
• Random Number Generation
• Resource Management
  • On/Off Manager API
• Shell
• Storage
  • Non-Volatile Storage (NVS)
  • Disk Access
  • Flash map
  • Flash Circular Buffer (FCB)
  • Stream Flash
• Task Watchdog
• Time Utilities
  • Representation Transformation
  • Time Scale Synchronization
• USB Device Stack
  • USB Device Controller
  • USB Device Core - Low level/High level API.
  • HID Class Device
• User mode
  • Memory Domain
  • Kernel object
  • System Calls
• Utilities
• Settings
  • API for general settings usage
  • API for key-name processing
  • API for runtime settings manipulation
  • API of backend interface
• Executing Time Functions
• Virtualization
  • Inter-VM Shared Memory

Zephyr modules

• zscilib Zephyr module - Scientific computing.
• OpenThread Zephyr module - OpenThread.
• micro-ROS Zephyr module - micro-ROS (ROS2).
• Rust Zephyr module - Module for building a Cargo project and linking it into a Zephyr image.

Virtualization

• ACRN
• QEMU

Hardware Abstraction

• Supported boards

Releases

• Zephyr releases
• Release notes
• GitHub Release Plan

IDEs

• JS IDE for Zephyr OS
• Eclipse IDE
• PlatformIO IDE
• PlatformIO for CLion
• PlatformIO for VSCode

VSCode extensions

• trond-snekvik.kconfig-lang - Kconfig language support for the Zephyr Project in VS Code.
• trond-snekvik.devicetree - DeviceTree language support for the Zephyr project in VS Code.
• platformio.platformio-ide - PlatformIO for VSCode.

Development containers

• Zephyr Docker Images - CI image / Developer image.
• Zephyr ADA containers - Containers to develop Ada programs based on Zephyr RTOS.

Development frameworks

• PlatformIO - A professional collaborative platform for embedded development.
• Renode - Virtual development framework for complex embedded systems.

Blog posts

• Zephyr website blog posts
  • First micro-ROS Application on Zephyr RTOS (2020-06-02)
  • Developing Zephyr RTOS embedded applications on PlatformIO and simulating on Antmicro Renode (2020-03-16)

Videos

• Zephyr website - Videos
• Zephyr Project Youtube channel
  • Bluetooth on Zephyr Overview
  • ACRN Hypervisor and Zephyr RTOS for Industrial IoT Applications
  • West Overview and Status
  • New shell and logger in Zephyr 1.14
  • USB support in Zephyr
  • Zephyr Power Management 101
  • Demand Paging: when software is bigger than available memory
  • Using OPC UA with Zephyr
  • A deep dive into the Zephyr 2.5 device model
  • Machine Learning with TensorFlow Lite Micro on Zephyr
  • Real Time in the Real World, Scheduler Details for Practical Problems
  • Coredump: a brief introduction and demo
  • Logging subsystem overview
  • Developing Hardware for Zephyr
  • Using Visual Trace Diagnostics on Zephyr Applications