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+<img src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/ba/TexasInstruments-Logo.svg" width="150"><br/>
+# c2000ware-FreeRTOS
+
+[Introduction](#introduction) | [Layout](#repositorylayout) | [Note](#note) | [Contribute](#contributing-to-the-project)
+
+</div>
+
+## Introduction
+FreeRTOS is a market-leading real-time operating system (RTOS) for microcontrollers and small microprocessors.
+This repository contains FreeRTOS kernel source/header files and kernel ports only. This repository is referenced as a submodule in c2000ware-core-sdk repository.
+
+C2000Ware SDK supports FreeRTOS on C28x and Cortex-M4(CM) cores.
+
+List of devices supported
+- [F280015x](https://www.ti.com/product/TMS320F2800157) 
+- [F280013x](https://www.ti.com/product/TMS320F2800137)
+- [F28003x](https://www.ti.com/product/TMS320F280039C)
+- [F28002x](https://www.ti.com/product/TMS320F280025C)
+- [F2838x](https://www.ti.com/product/TMS320F28388D).
+
+
+## Repository Layout
+- kernel/FreeRTOS/Source 
+	- This folder contains the source code for the kernel 
+- kernel/FreeRTOS/Source/portable/CCS/C2000_C28x 
+    -  This folder contains the port files for C28x .
+- kernel/FreeRTOS/Source/portable/CCS/ARM_CM4 
+    -  This folder contains the port files for Cortex-M4.	.
+- kernel/FreeRTOS/Demo
+	- This folder contains the demo application projects 
+	
+## Note
+   This repository has a dependency on [c2000ware-core-sdk](https://github.com/TexasInstruments/c2000ware-core-sdk) repository. 
+   Please clone the c2000ware-core-sdk repo and then clone this repo. 
+   The contents of this repo (kernel) folder has to be copied into the c2000ware-core-sdk repo.
+
+	
+## Contributing to the project
+
+This project is currently not accepting contributions.