ECE507 REAL-TIME OPERATING SYSTEMS (RTOS) 3 0 2 4

Unit I Introduction to - Operating System and RTOS 14

Computer Hardware Organization, BIOS and Boot Process, Multithreading concepts, Processes,Threads, Scheduling

RTOS Terminology: RTOS concepts and definitions, real-time design issues,

examples, Hardware Considerations: logic states, CPU, memory, I/O, Architectures, RTOS building blocks, Real-time Kernel. Process Management: Concepts, scheduling, IPC, RPC, CPU Scheduling, scheduling criteria, scheduling algorithms.

Unit II Threads 7

Multithreading models, threading issues, thread libraries, synchronization, Mutex: creating, deleting, prioritizing mutex, mutex internals.

Unit III Inter-Process Communication 7

Buffers, mailboxes, queues, semaphores, deadlock, priority inversion, Pipes

Unit IV Memory Management and Kernel Design Issues 15

Process stack management, run time buffer size, swapping, overlays, block/page management, replacement algorithms, real-time garbage collection. Kernel design issues: Structure, process states, data structures, inter-task communication mechanism, Linux Scheduling

Unit V Case Study 5

Linux POSIX system , RTLinux / RTAI, Windows system, Vxworks, uItron

REFERENCE BOOKS 1. Raj Kamal, Embedded Systems, Architecture, Programming and Design Tata McGraw

Hill, 2006.

2. Herma K., Real Time Systems, Design for distributed Embedded Applications, Kluwer Academic, 1997.

3. C.M. Krishna, Kang, G. Shin, Real Time Systems, McGraw Hill, 1997. 4. Mukesh Sighal and N. G. Shi Advanced Concepts in Operating System, McGraw Hill

2000. 5. Real-Time Embedded Systems: Open-Source Operating Systems Perspective by Ivan

Cibrario Bertolotti, Politecnico di Torino and Gabriele Manduchi, CRC Press

ECE507 RTOS PROGRAMMING LAB (RTLinux/VxWorks) 3 0 2 4

List of Experiments

1. Round Robin Multitasking 2. Cooperative Multitasking 3. Priority-Driven Preemptive Multitasking 4. RTOS programs for Interrupts and Interrupt Latency, Response times of the tasks. 5. Signal Event Based Communication

6. Message Event Based Communication 7. Semaphores 8. Attaching Interrupts to Tasks 9. Programs related to Static scheduling, Dynamic scheduling. 10. RTOS programs for Resource sharing 11. Introduction to LINUX Commands, Introduction to vi editor