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Real-Time Systems - COMP9245
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Campus: Kensington Campus
 
 
Career: Postgraduate
 
 
Units of Credit: 6
 
 
EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)
 
 
Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 5
 
 
Enrolment Requirements:
 
 
Prerequisite: COMP9201 or COMP9283, COMP9008 or COMP4001.
 
 
Equivalent: COMP3241
 
 
Fee Band: 2 (more info)
 
 
Further Information: See Class Timetable
 
  

Description

System taxonomy. Time and causality. Characteristics of real-time systems and their environment. Real-time systems design such as real-time UML; model driven and software architectures; software and requirements engineering for real-time systems; temporal reflection. Performance analysis: worst case execution time analysis; scheduling tasks (rate montonic, generalised rate, slack scheduling); reliability analysis and fault tolerance. Risk assessment and minimisation. Famous faults and disasters. Time triggered architectures and approaches. Real-time languages and language Extensions. Real-time communication.

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