CS8C03. REAL TIME OPERATING SYSTEM

Section - I

Unit 1. Basic Real Time Concepts & Hardware Considerations
Terminology, Real Time System Design issues, Examples of Real-Time Systems

Unit 2. Hardware Considerations
Basic Architecture, Hardware Interfacing, Central Processing Unit, Memory, Input / Output, Other special devices

Unit 3. Real-Time Operating System
Real-Time Kernels, Theoretical Foundation of Real-Time Operating System, Scheduling ,Inter Task Communication and synchronization, System Services for Application Programs, Memory Management, Selecting Real Time Operating Systems ,Case study : POSIX .

Section - II

Unit 4. Software Requirements Engineering
Requirements - Engineering process, Types of Requirements, Requirements Specification for Real-Time Systems, Formal Methods in Software Specification, Structured Analysis and Design, Object-Oriented Analysis and the Unified Modeling, Organizing the Requirements Document, Organizing and Writing Requirements, Requirements Validation and Review.

UNIT 4. Programming Language and the Software Production Process
Coding of Real Time Software, Assembly Language, Procedural Language, Object-Oriented Language,. Overview of programming languages for real time systems. Real time features of JAVA, C# languages, Special Real Time Languages, Compiler Optimization of code.

UNIT 5 Metrics & Cost Estimation
Lines of Code, McCabe’s Metric ,Halstead’s Metric ,Function points, Feature Points , Metric for Object –Oriented Software. Fault Tolerance ,Cost Estimation using COCOMO , Basic COCOMO, Detailed COCOMO, COCOMO II model .

Unit 6. Study of Commercial RTOS
Architecture of RT Linux, Initialization Task Management in RT Linux, Scheduling, Memory Management, Task Synchronization.

Text Books:
1. Real- Time Systems Design and Analysis.. Tools for the Practitioner by Phillip A Laplante, Seppo J.Ovaska ,Wiley - 4th Edition (For Units 1, 2, 3, 4,5)
2. Embedded Real Time Systems: Concepts, Design and Programming - Dr. K.V.K. Prasad - Black Book, Edition: 2014 (Unit 6)

References :
1 . Real Time Systems Theory and Practice , Rajib Mall , Pearson Education .