1. Overview — RTEMS Eclipse Manual 5.4-rc2 (21st August 2026) documentation

# 1. Overview

Welcome to the RTEMS Eclipse Manual.

This document covers using Eclipse with RTEMS.

RTEMS, Real-Time Executive for Multiprocessor Systems, is a real-time executive (kernel) which provides a high performance environment for embedded applications.

Eclipse is an Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for a wide range of languages and platforms.

RTEMS’s eco-system provides all the tools and capabilities to integrate with Eclipse. You can build and develop RTEMS with Eclipse as well as build applications with Eclipse.

Unless otherwise stated this document refers to the Eclipse Mars release.