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Richard Barry

Richard Barry founded the FreeRTOS project in 2003, spent more than a decade developing and promoting FreeRTOS through his company Real Time Engineers Ltd, and now continues his work on FreeRTOS within a larger team as a senior principal engineer at Amazon Web Services. Richard graduated with 1st Class Honors in Computing for Real Time Systems, and was awarded an Honorary Doctorate for his contributions to the development of embedded technology. Richard has also been directly involved in the startup of several companies, and authored several books.

5 Benefits of Using FreeRTOS

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Developed in partnership with the world’s leading chip companies over an 18-year period, and now downloaded every 170 seconds, FreeRTOS is a market-leading real-time operating system (RTOS) for microcontrollers and small microprocessors. While FreeRTOS remains an independent, open source project, Amazon Web Services's backing of FreeRTOS, has accelerated FreeRTOS kernel and related libraries development. In this keynote, you will learn about the top 5 FreeRTOS benefits surfaced by time-tested project tenets.

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Cloud Connect All Your Devices with FreeRTOS - From Tiny MCUs to Feature-Rich Processors

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In this session, developers will learn how to use FreeRTOS products and libraries to quickly and securely connect both capable and tiny MCUs to the cloud. The first demonstration shows how device developers designing-in more capable devices benefit from FreeRTOS’s decoupled and modular C libraries and reference integrations. The second follows by showing the convenience and simplicity of using AWS IoT ExpressLink to connect even the most resource constrained MCU families.

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