UNSW Handbook Course - Real Time Engineering

Real Time Engineering - ELEC3041


	Faculty: Faculty of Engineering
	School: School of Electrical Eng and Telecommunications
	Course Outline: http://www.ee.unsw.edu.au/
	Campus: Kensington Campus
	Career: Undergraduate
	Units of Credit: 6
	EFTSL: 0.125 (more info)
	Contact Hours per Week: 4
	Enrolment Requirements:
	Prerequisite: ELEC2042
	Fee Band: 2 (more info)
	Further Information: See Class Timetable

Description

Real-Time Systems: real-time versus non real-time; hard/soft and critical/non-critical real-time systems; events and stimuli; processes, tasks and threads; concurrent processes; software architectures; state machines. Real-Time Kernels: Scheduling algorithms; co-routines and multi-tasking; inter-process communication and synchronisation; context switching; task management; reliability, testing and fault tolerance; timing analysis; device drivers. Real-Time Linux: POSIX and Linux; loadable kernel modules; inter-process communication; interrupts; shared memory and RT-FIFO's. Embedded Systems: Real-time kernels for embedded systems; Motorola 68HC11; MXC11 real-time executive.

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