» Introduction to real time operating systems (RTOS)

» Basic architecture and requirements

» Types and features

» Hard time systems

» Real time kernels

» Why does it make sense to use a real-time kernel?

» Multitasking techniques

» Time and memory management

» Real time scheduling

» Interrupts service routine (ISR)

» Detecting errors

» Shared resources

» Scheduler: Task assignment and scheduling

» Preemptive and non preemptive kernels

» Priority and its inversion

» Deadlocks

» Inter task communications and task management

» Message queue and mailbox

» Interrupt latency

» Kernel initialization

» Event control block

» Semaphores management

» Porting RTOS and embedded operating systems

» Performance metric, property of RTOS development environment

VxWorks Application Development

» Basic RTOS concepts in VxWorks context.

» Basic O.S. concepts, what is kernel?

» Overview of Tornado/VxWorks facilities

» Host/Target Configuration

» Introduction to cross development platform.

» Technique to boot the target

» Boot VxWorks & Download.

» Reconfigure VxWorks, Linking in User Defined mode

» Downloading Object modules to a VxWorks target

» Developing application using VxWorks system calls

» Use WindView to analyze a multitasking application.

» I/O Device Driver installation.

» Starting Tornado

» Target server and agent-WDB

» Tasking

» Intertask Communication and Synchronization

• Semaphores

• Shared Memory

 • Message Queues

» Memory management

» Watch Dog Timers

» Shell-Windsh and Browser

» Source Level Cross Debugger-CrossWind

» Runtime Analyzer tool-WindView

» Embedded system software Design
 • Tasking Model
 • Exercise

» How to use different O.S functions