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Confused about IOC, FreeRTOS, and CMSIS_OS2

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jlthompson
Associate III

‎2025-06-29 7:09 PM - last edited on ‎2025-06-30 7:18 AM by

Please enlighten me. I added FreeRTOS to my STM32CubeIDE project using IOC. I discovered that I had to choose either CMSIS_V1 or CMSIS_V2 as the FreeRTOS Mode, else FreeRTOS would not be included. I chose CMSIS_V2. I then noticed the FreeRTOS Configuration pane and added a task, timer, and Queue. Upon finding the generated code, I noticed they are created with osThreadNew, osTimerNew, , and osMessageQueueNew. I was expecting xTaskCreateStatic, xTimerCreateStatic, and xQueueCreateStatic instead.

Are the three set of functions somehow the same, or is one a wrapper for the other, or what? Can I still use the FreeRTOS Reference Manual, or do need to find and consult the CMSIS_V2 OS manual instead? Or, maybe I did something wrong.

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mƎALLEm
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‎2025-06-30 7:03 AM - edited ‎2025-06-30 7:18 AM

Hello,

CMSIS_V1 and CMSIS_V2 are CMSIS wrappers for RTOS implementation. So the application is RTOS agnostic. See CMSIS-RTOS2.

To my knowledge you can still use FreeRTOS APIs but I don't have idea about the impact.

So I recommend to use CMSIS wrappers to prevent any issue.

You can inspire from the examples provided for FreeRTOS in github: https://github.com/STMicroelectronics/STM32CubeF4/tree/master/Projects/STM324xG_EVAL/Applications/FreeRTOS

Hope it helps.

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mƎALLEm
ST Employee

‎2025-06-30 7:03 AM - edited ‎2025-06-30 7:18 AM

Hello,

CMSIS_V1 and CMSIS_V2 are CMSIS wrappers for RTOS implementation. So the application is RTOS agnostic. See CMSIS-RTOS2.

To my knowledge you can still use FreeRTOS APIs but I don't have idea about the impact.

So I recommend to use CMSIS wrappers to prevent any issue.

You can inspire from the examples provided for FreeRTOS in github: https://github.com/STMicroelectronics/STM32CubeF4/tree/master/Projects/STM324xG_EVAL/Applications/FreeRTOS

Hope it helps.

To give better visibility on the answered topics, please click on "Accept as Solution" on the reply which solved your issue or answered your question.
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