48450 Real-time Operating Systems

Requisite(s): 48434 Embedded Systems OR 48441 Introductory Digital Systems

These requisites may not apply to students in certain courses.

There are also course requisites for this subject. See access conditions.

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