What is FreeRTOS?

Developed in partnership with the world's leading chip companies over a 15-year period, and now downloaded every 170 seconds, FreeRTOS is a market-leading real-time operating system (RTOS) for microcontrollers and small microprocessors. Distributed freely under the MIT open source license, FreeRTOS includes a kernel and a growing set of libraries suitable for use across all industry sectors. FreeRTOS is built with an emphasis on reliability and ease of use.

FreeRTOS includes libraries for connectivity, security, and over-the-air (OTA) updates. FreeRTOS also includes demo applications that show FreeRTOS features on qualified boards.

FreeRTOS is an open-source project. You can download the source code, contribute changes or enhancements, or report issues on the GitHub site at https://github.com/FreeRTOS/FreeRTOS.

We release FreeRTOS code under the MIT open source license, so you can use it in commercial and personal projects.

We also welcome contributions to the FreeRTOS documentation (FreeRTOS User Guide, FreeRTOS Porting Guide, and FreeRTOS Qualification Guide). To view the markdown source for the documentation, see https://github.com/awsdocs/aws-freertos-docs. It's released under the Creative Commons (CC BY-ND) license.

Sign up for an Amazon Web Services account

If you do not have an Amazon Web Services account, use the following procedure to create one.

Amazon sends you a confirmation email after the sign-up process is complete. At any time, you can view your current account activity and manage your account by going to http://www.amazonaws.cn/ and choosing My Account.

Secure IAM users

After you sign up for an Amazon Web Services account, safeguard your administrative user by turning on multi-factor authentication (MFA). For instructions, see Enable a virtual MFA device for an IAM user (console) in the IAM User Guide.

To give other users access to your Amazon Web Services account resources, create IAM users. To secure your IAM users, turn on MFA and only give the IAM users the permissions needed to perform their tasks.

For more information about creating and securing IAM users, see the following topics in the IAM User Guide:

Download FreeRTOS source code

Download the latest FreeRTOS and Long Term Support (LTS) packages from the Downloads page on freertos.org.

FreeRTOS-qualified hardware platforms

The following hardware platforms are qualified for FreeRTOS:

Qualified devices are also listed on the Amazon Partner Device Catalog.

For information about qualifying a new device, see the FreeRTOS Qualification Guide.

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