Real Time Operating Systems

The This course introduces the basics of Real-Time Operating Systems (RTOSes) using VxWorks and Linux as examples. The course focuses on the primary principles of RTOSes including determinism, real-time scheduling, interrupt latency and fast context switching as well as time and space partitioning in hard real-time environments. The first part of the course focuses on acquiring an understanding of microkernel and memory architectures for Real-Time including scheduling, signals, system calls, synchronization, inter-process communications and interrupt handling. The latter part of the course covers considerations for timing, memory management, device drivers, booting, debugging and deployment of Real-Time embedded systems.