Course Description

Lecture Material

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Date	Topics	Material	Notes
8/29	Introduction to realtime & embedded operating system	Course Description
8/31	Realtime systems: design approaches, requirements, and programming	SysProg	Hwk1 assigned
9/2	Discussion of bit-wise operations, and the details of Homework 1	MI6.c and BinaryNum.c
9/2	Pointers + HKW1	Pointers	HWK1
9/7	Android demo by Panya
9/9	Robotics demo by Dom
9/12	Introduction to WRT54GL and Nexos/Xinu Environment	WRT54GL/XINU
9/14	Project 1: Nexos: working with XINU	Prj1
9/19	Foundations of realtime systems	RealtimeSys	Prj1 Due: 10/14
9/26	What happened to Mars Rover?	MarRover; Also see p.170-171	New TA: Li Sun
9/28	Realtime kernel design: Cyclic executive (CE)	RTKernelCE	Priority inheritence exercise
10/3	Table driven CE: Period, frame, hyperperiod, burns and CE schedule	Class notes
10/5	Multi-tasking; signals and alarms	Demo code
10/10	Alarm and signals	AlrmSig
10/14	Unix pipes	Demo code	pages:188-190
10/19	Design and implementation of device drivers	Project 2: Framebuffer
10/26	Socket Abstraction	sockets
10/21	Midterm Exam
10/31	Project 3 Discussion	Project 3
	Unified Modeling Language (UML): use case, discovering class and class diagrams	RT.Usecase
11/2	CRC card	CRC
11/9	Concurrency using threads	Pthread
11/16	Memory management	See demos
11/18	Final exam review	Review
11/30	Presentations	Logan Sheldon&Priyanka Darwin Adam&Ryan Robert&David

Projects:

Prj1: Programming Embedded XINU System New Due date: 10/14

Android programming: start anytime: Useful site :
Panya is discussing Android during recitation (10/10)

Working with Embedded Xinu

XINU Main Page

Preparing EXINU Boot

XINU documentation

Interesting links:

(Thanks to Nathan Ohmit for the links below on Apollo13)

http://www.amazon.com/Digital-Apollo-Human-Machine-Spaceflight/dp/0262134977

http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=11416

Panya's Web Site for Recitation notes

Office hours of Li Sun at Franzac 206D: MWF1.30-2.30PM