ECE 59500 - Real-Time Operating Systems and Applications
Course Details
Lecture Hours: 3 Credits: 3
Areas of Specialization:
- Computer Engineering
Normally Offered:
Each Fall
Campus/Online:
On-campus only
Requisites:
ECE 26400, ECE 36200
Requisites by Topic:
C/C++ programming language, microprocessors
Catalog Description:
This course provides an in-depth study of real-time operating systems (RTOS), focusing on fundamental principles, design considerations, and implementation techniques. Topics include real-time scheduling, task management, inter- task communication, synchronization, memory management, and case studies of commercial and open-source RTOS. Students will gain hands-on experience through programming assignments and projects using an RTOS such as FreeRTOS, Zephyr, or VxWorks.
Required Text(s):
- Real-time Systems , Jane W. S. Liu , Prentice-Hall , 2000 , ISBN No. 0-13-099651-3
Recommended Text(s):
- Operating System Concepts , Sliberschatz, Galvin and Gagne , John Wiley & Sons Inc. , 2018 , ISBN No. 0-471-25060-0
Lecture Outline:
| Weeks | Weeks |
|---|---|
| 2 | Introduction to Operating Systems: process and process control block, communication between processes, files system, I/O systems. |
| 2 | Real-time System model: task scheduling, resources, dependency, hard and soft real-time systems, periodic task model, aperiodic task, sporadic task, precedence graph. |
| 1 | Clock-driven scheduling |
| 1 | Priority-driven scheduling, dynamic systems, static systems |
| 1 | Earliest deadline first scheduling |
| 1 | Midterm |
| 2 | Rate-monotonic scheduling |
| 1 | Validating timing scheduling |
| 2 | Synchronization: critical-section, semaphores, monitors |
| 2 | Device IO interfaces: Wi-Fi, SPI, I2C, I2S, DAC, ADC, Timers |
Assessment Method:
Homework, quizzes, exams, projects (4/2025)