Reaaliaikakäyttöjärjestelmät (T0201), 5 op

Basic information

Course name:	Reaaliaikakäyttöjärjestelmät Real-time Operating Systems
Course Winha code:	T0201
Kurre acronym:	ReKj
Credits:	5
Type and level of course:	Professional studies
Year of study, semester or study period:	4.year
Implementation:	2.period
Semester:	0708
Language of tuition:	Suomi
Teacher:	Markku Nuutinen
Final assessment:	Grading scale (0-5)

Descriptions

Prerequisites

Programming

Course contents (core content level)

- real-time system concepts
- kernel structure
- task management
- context switching and state diagrams
- scheduling and time diagrams
- priorities; statically and dynamically
- mailboxes; queue and message
- semaphore management
- troubles and their management; deadlock, mutual exclusion and synchronication
- interrupt management
- service functions in microC/OS real-time kernel

Course contents (additional)

- structures of description tables
- interrupt service mechanisms

Core content level learning outcomes (knowledge and understanding)

After completing the study unit the student knows services and kernel structures of the real-time operating system and understands features of the embedded system.

Core content level learning outcomes (skills)

The student is able to use services of the real-time operating system and design a real-time application, which consists of several processes and communications between them

Teaching and learning strategies

Lectures, labs, discussions, assignments, specification project.

Teaching methods and student workload

Assessment weighting and grading

Exam, a software design project

Related competences of the degree programme

Product development and project skills
Software Engineering