The Course Schedule

• September 20: Introduction to the course, up to soft real-time systems
• September 21: end of the introductory slides, and scheduling theory, up to cyclic executives
• September 27: cyclic executives and fixed-priority scheduling, including utilisation-based analysis
• September 28: real-time APIs and how to implement a periodic behaviour in a task (for this, and all the other practical lessons in the lab, see here
• October 4: finish the introduction on scheduling, and discuss dynamic priorities
• October 5: finish real-time APIs
• October 11: Response Time Analysis, with exercises
• October 15: Implement a cyclic executive scheduler; processes and threads
• October 18: Time Demand Analysis and sensitivity analysis
• October 22: Implementing periodic processes, and setting the scheduling parameters
• October 25: Sporadic Server and introduction to Shared Resources
• October 29: no lesson
• November 5: wait(), signal, and real-time signals; introduction to posix threads
• November 8: NPP, PI, HLP, etc... Introduction to real-time kernels
• November 12: pthreads and mutexes
• November 15: kernel latencies (introduction, kinds of latencies, latency sources) and I/O in the kernel
• November 19: real-time threads and periodic threads (using periodic timers with pthreads, etc...). Example of real-time application.
• November 22: The timer resolution latency
• November 26: real-time threads (again), condition variables and introduction to cross compilation
• November 29: The non-preemptable sections latency, introduction to real-time executives