1. Preface

The Real Time Executive for Multiprocessor Systems (RTEMS) operating systems is a layered system with each of the public APIs implemented in terms of a common foundation layer called the SuperCore. RTEMS provides full capabilities for management of tasks, interrupts time, and multiple processors in addition to those features typical of generic operating systems. RTEMS has been implemented in both the Ada and C programming languages.

The RTEMS development effort uses an open development environment in which all users collaborate to improve RTEMS. The RTEMS cross development toolset is based upon the free GNU tools and the open source C Library newlib. RTEMS supports many host platforms and target architectures.