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Also known as Real-Time Executive for Multiprocessor Systems

Real-Time Executive for Multiprocessor Systems (RTEMS), formerly Real-Time Executive for Missile Systems, and then Real-Time Executive for Military Systems, is a real-time operating system (RTOS) designed for embedded systems. It is free and open-source software.

Key facts

OS.name
RTEMS
OS.logo
RTEMS logo.svg
OS.developer
OAR Corporation
OS.working state
Current
OS.source model
Open source
OS.family
Real-time operating system
OS.latest release version
6.2
OS.marketing target
Embedded systems
OS.programmed in
C
OS.language
English
OS.supported platforms
ARM, Blackfin, ColdFire, TI C3x/C4x, H8/300, x86, 68k, LatticeMico32, Microblaze, MIPS Nios II, OpenRISC, PowerPC, RISC-V, SuperH, SPARC (ERC32, LEON), SPARC64
OS.kernel type
Real-time
OS.ui
Command-line
OS.license
BSD 2 Paragraph

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Real-Time Executive for Multiprocessor Systems (RTEMS), formerly Real-Time Executive for Missile Systems, and then Real-Time Executive for Military Systems, is a real-time operating system (RTOS) designed for embedded systems. It is free and open-source software.

Development began in the late 1980s with early versions available via File Transfer Protocol (ftp) as early as 1993. OAR Corporation managed the RTEMS project in cooperation with a steering committee until the early 2000s when project management evolved into a subset of the core developers managing the project. In 2014, hosting was moved from OAR Corporation to the Open Source Lab at Oregon State University.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “RTEMS” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.