Practical ICT Experience – Flexibility – Worldwide References

Knowledge Evolution
Introduction to Real-Time Operating Systems
Course ID: EPOL-10:017
Duration: 2 or 3 days
Number of participants: recommended optimum 15, maximum 25
NOTES:
Can be tailored to focus on a specific Real-Time Operating System (RTOS), such as: VRTX,
pSOS, VxWorks, OSEK / VDX, Nucleus, OSE, µC/OS and others
Can be tailored to focus on the Transition of Applications between specific RTOSs, such as:
VRTX, pSOS, VxWorks, OSEK / VDX, Nucleus, OSE, µC/OS and others
Course objectives
The primary goal of this course is to give the participant the skills necessary to develop software
for embedded computer systems using a real-time operating system. This is a very practical, results
oriented course that will provide knowledge and skills that can be applied immediately.
This course introduces the principles shared by many real-time operating systems, and their use
in the development of embedded multitasking application software.
The course begins with the fundamental elements of real-time multitasking embedded application
software design and development. Processor and operating system concepts relevant to multitasking
systems are examined, with focus on pre-emptive task scheduling, intertask communication
and synchronization.
The course continues with a detailed survey of popular operating system kernel services, giving many
application examples. Topics include timer services, dynamic memory allocation schemes, network
communication programming interfaces and device driver supervisors. Multitasking code development
is discussed and example programs are reviewed and debugged. Practical experience is gained during
student work exercises.
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