ESD 404T -  Real Time Software Design  
 

Indicative contents

  • Introduction to OS & RTOS
  • VxWorks: Overview, RT Multitasking, Semaphores, Task synchronization and Mutual Exclusion, Shared Memory Objects, Inter-task communication, Message Queues and Pipes, Memory partitions, Exceptions Interrupts and Timers, Watchdog Timers, IO Systems, File handling, Networking.
  • UML Modeling
     

Module Resources

  • Essential reading
    1. Course notes