48450 Real-time Operating Systems

6cp
Requisite(s): 48441 Introductory Digital Systems
Fields of practice: Computer Systems Engineering program
Undergraduate
Subject coordinator: Steve Murray

The objectives of this subject are that students should: be familiar with the Unix operating system at the POSIX definition level; know how to develop C applications to run on a POSIX standard operating system; know the basic principles of the design and implementation of a centralised POSIX defined operating system; know how the centralised operating system functionality can be expanded into a distributed operating system; know the basic principles of hard real-time application programming (rate monotonic and deadline monotonic to be examined in depth); and know how to apply the hard real-time principles to existing hard real-time operating systems employing the POSIX standard (as a minimum).

Topics include: the use of the Unix operating system and other POSIX defined operating systems as tools for developing real-time control applications; advanced control application-based C programming; real-time principles and concurrent programming techniques; distributed operating systems employing distributed memory management, process management, file systems, and I/O; and client/server programming, typically using Windows NT. Rate monotonic and deadline monotonic analysis will be examined as a method of providing hard real-time application verification.

Assessment: Typically assessment for this subject involves a series of programming assignments and a final examination.

Typical availability

Autumn semester, City campus
Spring semester, City campus

Fee information

2006 contribution for 2005/06 commencing Commonwealth-supported undergraduate students: $872.38
2006 amount for undergraduate domestic fee-paying students: $2,310.00
Subject EFTSL: 0.125
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