CPE355 - Software Design for Real Time Systems

Professor: Emil Jovanov, Ph.D.

Office: 213, Engineering Building

Phone: 890 6632

Office hours: MW 9:00-11:00 AM (other times by appointment only)

Credit: 3

Prerequisites: EE302

Description: The goal of this course is to introduce software issues in the development of real time parallel processor systems. The second part presents relevant computer architecture issues, and some existing RT system architectures. Operating system issues will cover tasks, scheduling, intertask communication and synchronization. The fourth part covers RT languages and programming issues. Special emphasis will be given to the organization of interrupt handlers, device drivers, and real time program debugging. In the fifth part, real-time specification and design techniques will be presented. The final part of the course will be presentation of essays and projects.

Text book: Phillip A. Laplante, "Real-Time Systems Design and Analysis, An Engineer’s Handbook," Second Edition, IEEE Press, 1997.

Other useful books:

Karnighan & Ritchie, "The C Programming Language," Prentice Hall, 1988.
Maurice J. Bach, "The Design of the UNIX Operating System," Prentice Hall, 1990.
William Stallings, "Computer Organization and Architecture, Designing for Performance," Prentice Hall, 1996.
Avi Silberschatz, Peter Galvin, "Operating System Concepts," Fifth Edition, Addison Wesley, 1998.
VxWorks Programmer's Guide, 5.3.1, Edition 1, Wind River Systems, Inc., 1997.

CPE355 Projects and essays

List of tentative CPE355 projects and essays

Solutions to Homework Assignments

Assignment #3 In Postscript or PDF

Assignment #4 In Postscript or PDF

Assignment #5 In Postscript or PDF

Solutions to Exams

Midterm exam (October 20, 1998) In Postscript or PDF

Final exam (December 10, 1998) In Postscript or PDF