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TDDD07 Real Time Systems, 6 ECTS credits.
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For:   COS   CS   D   DAV   SEM   SOC  


OBS!
Overlapping course contents: TDDA47, TDDC47, TTIT62.
 

Prel. scheduled hours: 42
Rec. self-study hours: 118

  Area of Education: Technology

Main field of studies: Computer Science, Computer Engineering

  Advancement level (G1, G2, A): A

Aim:
  • Understanding CPU scheduling algorithms for hard real-time systems and their response time analysis, including mechanisms for sharing of multiple resources and their relationship to deadlock avoidance
  • Identify characteristics of real-time operating systems in terms of predictability compared to ordinary operating systems
  • Understanding implications of dependability requirements, and ability to identify and apply methods for fault tolerance in real-time systems development
  • Awareness of implications of predictability requirements for distributed real-time systems, and understand methods for real-time communication in hard real-time applications, and quality of service (QoS) requirements in soft real-time applications
  • Knowledge of design and modelling issues related to real-time systems
  • Identify the problems that require the use of real-time systems techniques and knowledge on how to employ relevant methods for task scheduling and resource sharing
  • Ability to implement a real-time system and to assess its performance based on application of different algorithms and methods
  • Ability to relate relevant information from different research articles and books used as course material to the above-mentioned goals.


Prerequisites: (valid for students admitted to programmes within which the course is offered)
A course on concurrent programming and operating systems.

Note: Admission requirements for non-programme students usually also include admission requirements for the programme and threshhold requirements for progression within the programme, or corresponding.
Organisation:
The theory is presented during the lectures. Lessons help to practice the presented material and prepare for the laboratory assignments.

Course contents:
Introduction to real-time systems applications. Resource allocation and in particular allocation of CPU as a resource (scheduling). Algorithms for static and dynamic scheduling: cyclic executive, rate-monotonic, earliest deadline first. Deadlock related problems in a real-time context and ceiling protocols for management of multiple resources. Overview of real-time operating systems. Dependability and its implications in real-time system development, fault tolerance, and exception handling. Interaction between resource allocation and performance demands in different systems, including methods for assuring networked applications' quality of service (QoS), e.g. Intserv and Diffserv. Design and application modelling in real-time systems. Distributed real-time systems and issues related to time, clocks and shared state.
Course literature:
Burns & Wellings: "Real-Time Systems and Their Programming Languages", Addison-Wesley, Fourth Edition (2009), and published articles from the electronic library.
Laboratory instruction material, published by the Department of Computer and Information Science.

Examination:
Written examination
Laboratory work
 4 ECTS
2 ECTS
 


Course language is English.
Department offering the course: IDA.
Director of Studies: Patrick Lambrix
Examiner: Simin Nadjm-Tehrani

Course Syllabus in Swedish

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Last updated: 11/08/2010