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KernelinsideBuilding blocks

Updated Jun 2025

C Development Tools

[RTOS Implementation Building Blocks]

A goal of FreeRTOS is that it is simple and easy to understand. To this end the majority of the RTOS source code is written in C, not assembler. The example presented here uses the WinAVR development toolsexternal_link. WinAVR is a free Windows to AVR cross compiler based on GCC.

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