Aims & Objectives

The objectives of the course is to provide the students with an understanding of the aspects of the Real-time systems and Real-time Operating Systems and to provide an understanding of the techniques essential to the design and implementation of real-time embedded systems.

COURSE  DESCRIPTION

·        Introduction

Embedded Software – Real-time Vs Non Real-time

Introduction to Real-time systems and Embedded Real-time Systems

Discussion of popular RTOS like RTLinux and VxWorks

Comparison of Embedded RTOSs (RTLinux and VxWorks)

Design Goals for Real-time software

Discussion on Embedded Real-time applications

Considerations for real-time programming

·        System architecture of RTLinux

Introduction RTLinux

Thread Creation and Management

Thread Synchronization Mechanisms

IPC – RTFIFO, Shared Memory

Interrupt Handling

·        System architecture of VxWorks

Introduction to VxWorks

Task Creation and management

Inter Task Communication Mechanisms

Semaphores, Message Queues, Pipes

Interrupts, Tornado tools 

·        Practical Sessions

Application Development under RTLinux and VxWorks

LEARNING OUTCOMES

After successful completion of the module, the students shall be able to:

·        Understand the Embedded Real Time software that is needed to run embedded systems

·        Understand the RTLinux RTOS and their commands

·        Understand the VxWorks RTOS and realtime application programming with it.

·        Build real-time embedded systems using RTLinux and VxWorks real-time operating systems

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