Description
Choosing an RTOS shapes a product for years: it affects timing behavior, driver availability, security updates, certification options, licensing and the skills your team needs. Switching later is expensive. This service gives you a structured, vendor-neutral recommendation grounded in your actual requirements, and a realistic plan for getting there if you are migrating from an existing platform.
What’s included
- A requirements workshop covering timing constraints, scheduling needs, memory footprint, target hardware, connectivity, security, safety standards, toolchain and licensing.
- A weighted comparison of shortlisted candidates, typically drawn from Zephyr, FreeRTOS, NuttX, RTEMS, PREEMPT_RT Linux and commercial options relevant to your sector.
- Review of scheduling policies, synchronization primitives, priority inversion handling, interrupt latency characteristics and tickless operation for each candidate.
- Assessment of board support, driver and middleware availability for your chosen hardware.
- For migrations: an analysis of your current code base’s OS dependencies and the abstraction layers needed to move.
Deliverables
- A recommendation report with the requirements matrix, comparison results, risks and a clear recommendation with rationale.
- A migration or adoption roadmap with phases, prerequisites and suggested validation steps, including timing verification.
- A review call with your team to discuss the recommendation and next steps.
Typical timeline
One to two weeks from scope confirmation for most projects. Larger migrations with extensive legacy code may need a longer assessment, which we will identify during scoping.
Who it’s for
Product teams starting a new embedded platform, teams outgrowing a bare-metal loop or a legacy kernel, and organizations consolidating several operating systems. It suits engineering managers who need a defensible decision as much as developers who want a second opinion. For background, read our article Choosing an RTOS in 2026. We have no commercial relationship with any RTOS vendor, so our recommendation is based solely on fit.
How it works
- Order: place your order on this page. You will receive an order confirmation by e-mail.
- Kick-off call: we contact you within a few business days to schedule a video call to discuss your system, goals and constraints.
- Scope confirmation: we confirm the scope, deliverables, schedule and any confidentiality arrangements in a written statement of work before substantive work begins.
- Delivery: we carry out the work as agreed and walk you through the results.
The price shown covers the standard scope described above. The final scope is always confirmed in the statement of work; if your system needs significantly more effort, we will tell you before any additional cost is incurred. See our refund policy and terms and conditions for details.
