Course Description

Description and Syllabus 
 

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
8/25
 Introduction to realtime & embedded operating system
 Course Description, policies
8/27
 Introduction to RTOS
 RTOS
8/29
 Design of a EMB RT system; FSM-based
 Design-FSM
9/3
 Project 1 discussion
 Prj1
9/5
 Introduction to Systems programming & C; Gdb debugger
 Ch.1, A.Hoover's text
ProgDev
9/8
 Introduction to C programming; Unix system;
Unix cmds Intro to C
9/10
 Hadoop@Bloomberg: Tech talk at Student Union Theater: Attendance requires: signup sheet


9/12
 Makefile 100%; Thread model for concurrency
 pthread
 demos
9/15
 "Where do I begin project1?"; Thread model
demos
9/17 More thread demos; how to use it in problem solving; pointers pointers demos
9/19
 Process model: Unix process model: concurrency; isolation; syscall API
 Process
9/22
 Fork and Exec system calls
 Demos
9/24 Revisit pointers; that leads us to Pointers and memory leak: 100% at the end of semester Pointers; Memory Leak
9/26 Cyclic Executive design: table-driven cyclic executive
9/29
 Complete example: Table driven FSM design to implementation; Intro to Codecon: Problem solving
Codecon
demos
10/1
 Realtime scheduling: periodic tasks, base task, interrupts
 RTSched CycSched
10/1
 Clock-driven scheduling
 ClockSched
10/3
 Lets look at a cyclic executive sample question; FCFS, EDS, RMS scheduling;
handout will be given in lecture
10/6
 EDS, RMS scheduling; priority-driven scheduling;
 PrioritySched
10/8
 Introduction to nexos; shared resources
 SharResource Sched
 Scheduling Exercises
10/13 All you want to know about Nexos, Xinu and WRT54GL nexos next codecon exercises are available
10/22
 Midterm Exam

10/24 Concurrency models;
nexos: Take 2		 procModel, Xinu Semaphores
10/27 Project 3 Embedded System Development
10/29 Plans for project 2; What to submit? Chat help Lets finish up xinu semaphores
10/31
 Concurrency models; Inter-process communication
 pipe() demos
 exam1stats
11/3 Demo of Raspberry Pi by Thmaos Papp

11/5 pipe() IPC

11/7 Signals and Alarms Signals&Alarm
11/12
 Building Embedded Systems with Arduino
 IntroArduino
 ArduinoHowTO
11/17 Device-driver DD
12/1-12/5
 Final Exam Review
 Final Review


Unix Commands

C Introduction

Process and Thread Programming Links

Posix Threads

Projects:

        Project 1: DECOY (Drone Control and Deployment) for Social Good

         Project 2: Working with Nexos (Next Generation embedded system)
                       Prj2 Plans
         
         Project 3: Embedded System Development
                        Prj3Demo Details

Working with Embedded Xinu

XINU Main Page

Preparing EXINU Boot

XINU documentation

Interesting links: