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.
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Date	Topics	Material	Notes
8/26	Introduction to realtime & embedded operating system	Course Description, policies
8/28	Defining RTOS and Embedded Systems	RTEM
8/30	Design representation using state diagram; deisgn choices; intro. to hardware	DesignRep
9/3	C foundations: from the very beginning	CProg
9/6	Lets discuss AFLIC	AFLIC
9/9	Concurrency model I: Unix Process model	Proc
	Lets understand process model...		Demos
9/11	Concurrency model II: posix thread model	Thread
9/15	pthread API; concurrency using pthreads; rand() function; probabilities using rand()	demo
9/18	Help on project 1 (bina's) (Xiang's)	Help1 Help2
9/22	Realtime systems	Cyclic Executive
9/25	Realtime Scheduling	See class notes
9/27	What ever happended on Mars? Mars Rover Story.	MarsRover
9/30	Clock-driven static scheduling	ClkSched	PriorityQues
10/3	Priority based scheduling; priority inversion and solutions	PrioritySched
10/6	Embedded XINU: WRT54GL infrastructure	EXINU_wrt54GL
10/8	Connecting to XINU: demo; bring your laptops		Lab 2
10/11	Getting Started with XINU	nexosXinu	Instructions
10/16	Understanding XINU-Part 1 midterm review	Xinu-Part1 MidtermReview
10/18	Arduino Demo by Brian Haag
	Exam Prep; Project 2 Push	Exam Prep ShellHowTo
10/23	Exam 1	Be there on time
10/25	Introduction to pipe() system call	p.187-190	demo Other examples
10/28	More pipes: Project 3 discussion	Lab 3
10/28	Signals + alarms	SigAlarm	pointers demos
11/1	Design representation: Use case and CRC	usecase CRC
11/6	Pointers and memory management	Pointers memLeak BufferOverflow	demos
11/11	Understanding xinu through its code	Initialize.c, main.c
11/13	Uart device; uart device driver	UART: uart directory and uart.h
11/18	Critical Section and mutual exclusion in Xinu; Semaphores	Xsema
	Beyond Xinu: applyig knowledge from Xinu	BEXinu
	Review questions for final exam	FinalQuesSampler
11/20	Presentation guidelines	PresGuideline
	Final exam review	FinalReview
12/1-6	Demos for Ardunio Project
12/10	Tuesday 8-11AM	222 NSC