italian version

Aims :

The aim of the course is that of introducing the student to the main features
of Operating Systems for devices acting under temporal constraints.

Topics :

Hard and Soft Real Time" (RT).
Scheduling of periodic and aperiodic processes
A-priori schedulability of a process
Main algorithms
Application areas
Typical architectures of RT systems
Robustness of RT systems
RT Communication
Embedded systems
Analysis and design aspects
Temporal analysis, separation policies, choice of hardware and software
platforms
Linux andKernel RT: the problem of RT scheduling under Linux
non-preemptable kernel; possible strategies (preemption patch, low-latency
patch and basic elements of RTAI)


Textbooks :

Hard real time computing systems, Giorgio C. Buttazzo, Kluwer Academic
Publishers

Exam :

analysis and design of a simple systems with discussion

Tutorial Session :

tuesday 16-20