RTOS -RTLinux

This short course is designed to ensure that students of Engineering College with academic capabilities will have the skill set needed to deal with the challenges involved in real-world embedded technologies to meet the needs of industries both today and in the future.

The course considers programming techniques which can help to ensure that single-processor embedded systems are reliable.

The course is taught mainly using the C programming language, with a PC emulated as an embedded device.

A prior knowledge of a Linux Internals, general understanding about operating system concepts is assumed.

• The duration of the course will be 120 hours (Theory60, Lab 60).
• The course is split into five modules.
• After the course is over, you should be able to:
  • Understand RTLinux Architecture
  • Understand Priority inversion and Priority Ceiling Protocols.
  • Add Real Time Layer to Linux
  • RTLinux and Linux Communication Mechanisms
  • Do Linux System Programming on Real Time Systems
  • Write real time device drivers using RTLinux.
• The following topics will be taught as part of the course.

Modules:

• Real-time concepts and design
• Introduction to RTLinux
• Design of RTLinux
• RT Scheduling
• RTLinux Programming
• Real-time device drivers