RTOS Acceleration Using Instruction Set Customization RTOS Acceleration Using Instruction Set Customization Star Award RTOS Acceleration Using Instruction Set Customization Institution: Centre for High Performance Embedded System (CHiPES), Nanyang Technological University (NTU) Participants: Muhamed Fauzi Bin Abbas, Ku Wei Chiet Instructor: Professor Thambipillai Srikanthan Design Introduction As embedded system designs become increasingly more complex, the use of real-time operating systems (RTOS) becomes essential to meet time-to-market pressures and to contain non-recurring engineering costs. However, an RTOS consumes precious CPU cycles in return for the services it provides. Further, the RTOS is typically treated as a pure softwar……