Course Description

Lecture Material

It is assumed that the following course material is being made available to students of SUNY at Buffalo for use in the courses offered by the Department of Computer Science.
They are meant for instructional use only.

Date	Topics	Material	Notes
8/31	Introduction to realtime & embedded operating system	Course Description, policies
9/2	Defining realtime & embedded operating systems	RTEM
9/4	Continue with design of RTEM systems
9/9	OS and process model; Cyclic executive; table driven executive ;	ProcModel; CycExe
9/11	Build utilities: unix make, Makefile
9/14	Lets look at process model code; Lab1 discussion		Lab1 discussion
9/16	Process model	demos
	Detour: C Lang Foundations; Unix Commands
9/18-21	Thread model for concurrency	threadModel	Pthreads Tutorial; demos
9/25	Mutual exclusion	Mutex
9/28	Realtime scheduling	RTSched	MarsPathfinder
10/2	Term Project discussion	TermProject
10/5	Clock driven scheduling	ClkSched
10/12	Review for exam	Review
	Introduction to EXINU	exinu
	Introduction to Nexos	nexos	Term project Signup
10/16	Exam 1	ReviewQuestions
10/21	Lab2: EXINU Kernel programming	Lab2
10/23	Xinu Semaphores: mutual exclusion and synchronization among concurrent process	XinuSem	Xinu
11/4	Communication among processes: pipe() syscall	pipeDemo
11/6	Signals and alarms: task control	SignalAlarm	signalDemo
11/11	Cyclic executive design and implementation: function driven vs table driven	CycExec2	CycExecDemo
11/16	Memory mangement	MMgt	Demo
11/18	Designing a device driver	DeviceDriver	Xinu devices
11/23	Design Representation and Discovering classes	DR & DC
11/30	Term Project (Take 2); Device driver design	Term Project
12/2	Framebuffer	Description	FB Xinu
	pipe() example	pipeExample
12/4	Process: fork, exec, dup, dup2	demo	Project Report Format (suggested)
12/7	Final review	Review ReviewQues
12/9	More Review
12/11	??
12/16	Final Exam 11.45AM- 2.45PM	NSC 215

Recitations:

RecReg	Rec#	Day	Time	Loc	TA	Sec TA	email
11671	R1	M	9:00 AM - 9:50 AM	Bell 340	Ajay	Qi	jerryant@buffalo.edu
11986	R2	M	1:00 PM - 1:50 PM	Bell 340	Andy		aswillms@buffalo.edu
11681	R3	F	1:00 PM - 1:50 PM	Bell 340	Andy		aswillms@buffalo.edu
12199	R4	W	8:00 AM - 8:50 AM	Bell 340	Ajay	Qi	jerryant@buffalo.edu
22827	R5	T	4:00 PM - 4:50 PM	Bell 340	Qi		qli25@buffalo.edu

Labs:

Lab1: Drone Collision Detection System (DCAS)

Lab2: Working with XINU kernel

Term project:
Project summary details

Unix Commands

C Introduction

Process and Thread Programming Links

Posix Threads

Interesting links:

Automotive Embedded Systems: Takada's