RTOS EVOLUTION AND HARDWARE MICROKERNEL IMPLEMENTATION BENEFITS

Due to the importance and complexity of real-time a pplications, the demands on real-time platforms inc rease every year, which motivates moving these applications onto multiprocessor hardware system on chip (MPSoC). This paper deals with different methods used for efficient handling of re al time design projects leading to their successful completion, not just completion on time, but completion with as little s ilicon surface as possible. In the following pages, we outline the evolution of Real Time Operating System (RTOS) architecture and their limitations, compare different approaches an d investigate the gain using the hardware implementation with microkernel structure for these RTOS that will improve bot h performance and design time.