CA480: Real Time & Embedded Systems

1. CA480: Real Time & Embedded Systems This module examines the theoretical and practical issues involved in ensuring computer systems meet the real-time constraints that exist in many applications, particularly those where computers are used to control physical mechanisms. Such computers are often embedded in a system, with the user hardly aware that a computer is involved. The module also examines the theoretical and practical issues involved in software development for embedded systems and for real time and other applications. The module assumes basic computer architecture and operating systems. A knowledge of a the C programming language and of assembly language programming is desirable. Some revision tutorials will be available on these topics. PCs and the DCU Educational Computer (the D6 kit) will be used as a vehicle for most of the practical work. Use will be made of the MicroC/OS real-time operating system CA480 is structured as 2 lecture hours, 1 tutorial hour and 3 laboratory hours per week. Assessment is based on a final examination (70%) and continuous assessment (30%) Real Time & Embedded Systems

2. Bibliography and References Recommended texts Real-Time Systems, Jane W.S. Liu Prentice-Hall 2000 Hard Real-Time Computing Systems, Giorgio C. Buttazzo Springer 2004 (2nd Edition) Supplementary texts : WWW + D6 kit manuals + An Embedded Software Primer, David E. Simon Addison Wesley 1999 MicroC/OS-II: The Real-Time Kernel, Jean J. Labrosse CMP Books 2002 Expert C Programming, Peter van der Linden Prentice-Hall PTR 1994 Programming Embedded Systems in C and C++, Michael Barr O’Reilly & Associates 1999   C: A Reference Manual, Samuel P. Harbison, Guy L. Steele Prentice-Hall 2002 The Art of Electronics, Paul Horowitz, Winfield Hill Cambridge University Press 1989 Real Time & Embedded Systems