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WHAT'S NEW

FreeRTOS website now available in Simplified Chinese

Search and browse content in your preferred language. See the blog post.

New FreeRTOS Long Term Support version now available.

Receive security patches and critical bug fixes on FreeRTOS libraries for two years. See the blog post.

FreeRTOS Extended Maintenance Program (EMP) registration now open.

Providing security patches and critical bug fixes on FreeRTOS Long Term Support (LTS) versions for up to 10 additional years. See the blog post.

FreeRTOS-Plus-TCP v3.0.0 released:

We've added comprehensive unit tests and penetration and protocol testing. See the blog post.

Featured FreeRTOS IoT Integrations:

Introducing three featured integrations for more secure IoT applications. See the blog post.

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 tools. WinAVR is a free Windows to AVR cross compiler based on GCC.

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