Real - Time Engineering - ELEC4633
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: 0.12500 (more info)
Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 4
Enrolment Requirements:
Prereq: ELEC3114
CSS Contribution Charge: 2 (more info)
Tuition Fee: See Tuition Fee Schedule
Further Information: See Class Timetable
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Description
Real-time operating systems and processes: Concurrent processes. Multitasking and multithreading. Interrupts. Foreground/background systems. Context switching. Types of real-time kernels. Scheduling. Static and Dynamic scheduling. Rate-monotonic and Deadline-driven scheduling. Priority inversion, the priority inheritance and priority ceiling protocols. Markov Models. Inter-process communication and memory management: Data buffering. Shared memory. Global memory. Critical regions. Semaphores. Mutual exclusion. Message passing. Memory allocation. Coding practices. Real-time embedded system design: process specification. Q-models. State machines and systems of state machines. Date representation. Numerical issues. Assembly language and C. Input/output programming. Device drivers. The implications of using limimted resources. Implementation: Microcontrollers. The Mitsubishi M16C/62 and Motorola MC68HC11 microcontrollers. RTLinux.
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