Real-Time Programming for Embedded Systems

The Real-Time Programming for Embedded Systems course provides an introduction to embedded software concepts and the fundamental issues in real-time design.

After this workshop, participants will be able to:

• Design and implement a real-time application
• Understand the functionality of a real-time operating system
• Start to learn and use a real-time operating system

• Real-Time Architecture
• Review of Basic RTOS Functionality
• Requirements Analysis
• State Machines
• Partitioning Software into Tasks
• Intertask Communication
• Intertask Synchronization
• Queue-Length Analysis
• Device Driver Techniques
• Encapsulation Techniques
• VMEbus Addressing
• Good Programming Practice
• Rate Monotonic Analysis

• Applies to all embedded software.

• Anyone who would like to learn the basics about real-time will benefit from this course, including real-time software systems architects, project managers, technical support engineers, and technical consultants who have responsibility for designing, structuring, and implementing the software for real-time and embedded systems using a real-time operating system, such as VxWorks and pSOSystem.

Day 1

• Real-Time Architectures
• Review of Real-Time Operating Systems
• Requirements Analysis
• State Machines
• Partitioning Software into Tasks

Day 2

• Queue Modeling
• Intertask Synchronization
• Device I/O Driver Models
• Encapsulation Techniques
• Miscellaneous Topics
• Real-Time Scheduling Is Not Intuitive
• Basics of Rate Monotonic Analysis
• More Complex Rate Monotonic Analysis
• Blocking Problems and Their Solutions

Prerequisite Course

• None

Prerequisite Skills

• One year of C programming experience (or other high-level programming language, such as Pascal)

• This two-day expert-led courses consist of lectures.
• Participants receive individual guidance from an expert engineer who has extensive experience with Wind River technologies.

• This course provides the foundation for all other Wind River courses.