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Standards and style

• IEEE Std 830-1998: IEEE Recommended Practice for Software Requirements Specifications, published in 1998
• MISRA C++:2008 Guidelines for the use of the C++ language in critical systems, by Motor Industry Software Reliability Association, published in 2008
• Joint Strike Fighter Air Vehicle C++ Coding Standards, Lockheed Martin Corporation Doc. No. 2RDU00001 Rev D, dated June 2007
• ISO/IEC 14882:2011 Information technology — Programming languages — C++
• C++11 - the new ISO C++ standard - by Bjarne Stroustrup; although not really a standard, it reflects Stroustrup’s thoughts about the standard, and it is also a great collection of links and references.
• Technical Report on C++ Performance - ISO/IEC TR 18015:2006(E)

Embedded operating systems

Note: Since GNU/Linux derived embedded systems are intended for a different class of applications, they currently do not make the subject of this project.

Written in C++

• eCos - The embedded configurable operating system by Cygnus Solutions (Wikipedia)
• ScmRTOS - Single-Chip Microcontroller Real-Time Operating System
• Miosix embedded OS - a kernel designed to run on 32bit microcontrollers; supports a priority-based scheduler, an innovative scheduler based on control theory which is the subject of academic research, and the EDF scheduler

Written in C

• µC/OS-III - µC/OS-III is a highly portable, ROMable, scalable, preemptive, real-time, deterministic, multitasking kernel for microprocessors, microcontrollers and DSPs, by Micrium.
• FreeRTOS - is probably the most popular open source, cross platform, real time operating system, available from Real Time Engineers Ltd.
• CMSIS with RTOS API - CMSIS 3.0 is expanded with a standardized API for Real-Time Operating System (RTOS) kernels and support for System View Description (SVD) XML files; Feabhas PDF
• Contiki - The Open Source OS for the Internet of Things
• TNKernel - a compact and very fast real-time kernel for the embedded 32/16/8 bits microprocessors inspired by the μITRON 4.0 specification
• NuttX - the NuttX Real-Time Operating System with TCP/IP, USB and more
• ChibiOS/RT - a complete, portable, open source, compact and extremely fast RTOS (German flavour)
• TinyOS - an open source, BSD-licensed operating system designed for low-power wireless devices
• RT-Thread - an open source real-time operating system for embedded devices
• uKOS-II - RTOS µKernel

Quantum Leaps (QP)

QP Active Object (Actor) Frameworks is a SourceForge project. The QP family consists of QP/C, QP/C++, and QP-nano frameworks, which are all strictly quality controlled, superbly documented, and commercially licensable. It is backed by Quantum Leaps LLC who also published a very good book Practical UML Statecharts in C/C++, Second Edition: Event-Driven Programming for Embedded Systems.

C/C++ language & libraries

• GNU Tools for ARM Embedded Processors - Pre-built GNU toolchain from ARM Cortex-M & Cortex-R processors (Cortex-M0/M0+/M3/M4, Cortex-R4/R5)
• C++ reference - a wiki with lots of C++ language and libraries references
• “libc++” C++ Standard Library - a LLVM sub-project, also available via ViewVC
• libstdc++-v3 - The GNU Standard C++ Library v3, part of the GNU GCC
• GNU Common C++ and GNU uCommon C++ - are both very portable and highly optimized class framework for writing C++ applications; stream classes are not included;
  • GNU Common C++
• Apache C++ Standard Library (STDCXX) - also available via ViewVC
• uClibc++ - an embedded C++ library, also available for Git browse; a good inspiration for embedded systems;
• uSTL - the small STL library; a port of usTL 1.3 is also available on eCos; SourceForge, including Git browse
• boost - portable C++ source libraries; all kind of libraries, interesting to look at, but sometimes quite complicated;
• Platinum - Platinum (Pt) is a comprehensive C++ framework, which allows developers to write high-performance applications for many platforms with only one codebase.
• Dinkum EC++ Library - a conforming implementation of the Embedded C++ library, as specified by the Embedded C++ Technical Committee.
• Thumb2 Newlib Toolchain - a GCC/Newlib based toolchain project
• libopencm3 - a free firmware library for various ARM Cortex-M3 microcontrollers including ST STM32, (a very elaborate doxygen configuration)
• STM32plus - a C++ library for STM32
• libstm32pp - A template peripheral library for the STM32 microcontrollers, written in C++

TCP/IP libraries

• lwIP - A Lightweight TCP/IP stack
• uIP - The uIP Embedded TCP/IP Stack
• UDP/IP - a Tiny Embedded UDP/IP Stack Implementation for FreeRTOS
• Practical C++ Sockets - provides wrapper classes for a subset of the Berkeley C Socket API for TCP and UDP sockets
• C/C++ Sockets Library - The ultimate socket library for C and C++
• Polar SSL - Straighforward, Secure Communication
• CycloneTCP - TCP/IP Solutions for Embedded Systems

Testing

• Jenkins - an extendable open source continuous integration server
• JUnit - the common Java framework for unit testing
• CppUnit - C++ port of JUnit
• CppTest - a portable and powerful, yet simple, unit testing framework for handling automated tests in C++
• xUnit++ - a unit testing platform for C++
• Google Test - a great unit testing for C++
• Google Mock - adds Hamcrest matchers and mocks

Multi-tasking related links

• Python 3 threading - thread-based parallelism
• Semaphores and other Wait-and-Signal mechanisms - a PDF presentation

Miscellaneous

• Doxygen - the de facto standard tool for generating documentation from annotated C++ sources

Hardware

Development boards

• LeafLabs - a company that builds Maple, an ARM Cortex M3 board, programmed using an Arduino-like development environment.

Books

• The C++ Standard Library - A Tutorial and Reference, 2nd Edition - The Best-Selling Programmer Resource - Now Updated for C++11
• Practical UML Statecharts in C/C++, Second Edition: Event-Driven Programming for Embedded Systems, available from Amazon

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