Author

Giovanni Di Sirio (gdisi.nosp@m.rio@.nosp@m.users.nosp@m..sou.nosp@m.rcefo.nosp@m.rge..nosp@m.net).

Why Nil?

Of course because it is so small that it is almost nil. I wrote Nil because I wanted to experiment with an idea I had regarding a minimal RTOS. Basically I wanted to verify how small could be an RTOS while retaining useful features.

Features

• Free software, GPL3 licensed. Stable releases include a exception clause to the GPL.
• Designed for realtime applications.
• Easily portable.
• Preemptive scheduling.
• Each thread has its own priority level.
• Offers tasks, time, semaphores, event flags, timeouts.
• Fully static.
• Minimal system requirements: about 700 bytes ROM with all options enabled.
• Almost totally written in C with little ASM code required for ports.
• Compatible with ChibiOS/HAL.
• API compatible with ChibiOS/RT of which, ChibiOS/NIL, is functionally a subset.