YAMI4 1.12.0 - new features and changes

This article is a short description of the new features and changes introduced in the YAMI4 1.12.0 release.

Embracing embedded software development

YAMI4 was designed with embedded systems in mind from the very beginning, from its very first architectural and coding decisions.

This dedication to embedded systems was mostly visible in the approach to memory management, with the core library consistently relying on its own memory allocator that can work on a pool organized in the memory block defined by the user. This rigour is typical for software frameworks that target embedded world, as it allows to easily implement memory partitioned applications, as well as reduce the reliance on complex language run-time environments.

Yet, the potential of applying YAMI4 in embedded systems was not fully developed with existing supported platforms limited to Windows and POSIX systems. The 1.12.0 release is a serious attempt to fill this gap.

The YAMI4 library now supports three Real-Time Operating Systems that are among the most widely used in the industry: FreeRTOS (with the LwIP network stack), ThreadX (with the NetX network stack) and TI-RTOS (previously SYS-BIOS).

It would be quite difficult to provide a generic port to these systems, as the actual details depend on the choice of target board, as well as the development environment (IDE) that is used to build the final system. For this reason, the package contains example project setups for some selected target combinations and separate articles were prepared to explain the steps taken to configure everything, with the idea that these explanations will be useful to engineers that need to work with slightly different setups.

The following articles explain the configuration of both core and high-level libraries on the given target environment, with appropriate code already being part of the 1.12.0 package:

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