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Assignment 1. Due : 26 th February 2007 Rules : Joint submissions by up to two people are allowed. Students are encouraged to draw on other people’s work. Any such use of the work of others must be specifically acknowledged – failure to do so will attract penalties.
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Assignment 1 Due : 26th February 2007 Rules : • Joint submissions by up to two people are allowed. • Students are encouraged to draw on other people’s work. Any such use of the work of others must be specifically acknowledged – failure to do so will attract penalties. • Plagiarism will be penalised severely. Assignments should be emailed to : michael.ryan@dcu.ie with CA480 Assign1 as subject Real Time & Embedded Systems
Assignment 1 (cont.) Assignment The program stopwtch.c turns the D6 kit into a stopwatch. • Identify how occasional errors, some of up to approximately ten minutes, can occur in the time displayed. Modify the code so as to remove the problem, explaining your reasoning clearly. • Repeated use of the control keys can cause individual errors of as much as 1/100 second to accumulate to a larger total. Identify why this can occur. Modify the code so as to remove the problem, explaing clearly what you have done. • Give a technical specification of the timing performance of the system • Break the programme into separate .c, .h and .asm files and write a ‘make’ file or equivalent to create the executable. Real Time & Embedded Systems