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Education and Innovation in Embedded Systems Design

USI Università della Svizzera italiana, USI Faculty of Informatics, Advanced Learning and Research Institute USI Università della Svizzera italiana USI Faculty of Informatics USI Advanced Learning and Research Institute

Real-time systems

Professor Thiele Lothar
Course program MSc
Year 1
Semester Spring
Category Fundamental
ECTS 6
Academic year 2016/2017

Objective

Real-time systems play a crucial role in our society since an increasing number of complex systems rely, in part or completely, on dependable and timely operation. This course will first give an introduction into the basic concepts of real-time computing and then treat two major issues, namely real-time scheduling and real-time kernels. Real-time scheduling will concentrate on predictable scheduling algorithms and provide the scientific methodology for the design of real-time systems. Real-time kernels will address the challenges and issues in the design and implementation of real-time operating systems.

Contents

  • Architectures of embedded systems (overview)
  • Task models and real-time metrics
  • Overview about non-real-time scheduling methods
  • Aperiodic task scheduling (algorithms and correctness proofs)
  • Periodic task scheduling (rate monotonic scheduling, earliest deadline-first scheduling, algorithms and correctness proofs)
  • Mixed task sets and resource virtualisation using servers
  • Resource access protocols
  • Real-time operating systems
  • Low-power and real-time (energy minimisation under real-time constraints)

References

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