Schedule

Suggested Readings:

• RTOS vs Bare-Metal
• Real-time operating system
• Linux on embedded systems
• A Defective Pacemaker Can Cause More Harm Than Good
• Drone warfare: the autonomous debate
• Two challenges in embedded systems design: predictability and robustness
• What really happened on Mars Rover Pathfinder
• So You Want To Be An Embedded Systems Developer

Suggested Readings:

• Compiling, Linking, and Locating
• C Build Process in details
• GCC for Embedded Engineers
• A Simple Makefile Tutorial

Suggested Readings:

• Interrupts
• What is the Shared Data Problem?
• Introduction to Priority Inversion
• What the Heck Is an “Atomic Object”?

Suggested Readings:

• Introduction to Real Time
• Chap 1, Ovaska, L. P. A. J. (2012). Real-Time Systems Design and Analysis: Tools for the Practitioner by Phillip A Laplante (4th Edition). Wiley-IEEE Press
• Nondeterministic algorithm

Required Readings: -Chap 5 of Simon, D. E. (1999). An Embedded Software Primer

Required Readings: -Chap 6 of Simon, D. E. (1999). An Embedded Software Primer

Suggested Readings:

• Multitasking
• Bare machine
• Bare Metal vs. RTOS vs. OS: What’s the Best for Your IoT Solution?
• Why a bare-metal developer moved to operating systems

Required Readings:

• Pages 2 to 8 of Zhu, M. Y. (2016). Understanding FreeRTOS: A requirement analysis
• Chap 4 of Barry R. (2018). Mastering the FreeRTOS™ Real Time Kernel A Hands-On Tutorial Guide

Suggested Readings:

• Multitasking on an AVR
• FreeRTOS: Memory Usage, Boot Times & Context Switch Times
• FreeRTOS: Real-time operating system for microcontrollers

Required Readings:

• Understanding FreeRTOS Task Stack Usage and Kernel Awareness Info
• Chap 6 of Simon, D. E. (1999). An Embedded Software Primer
• Chap 3 of Mastering the FreeRTOS Real Time Kernel
• FreeRTOS tasks states

Required Readings:

• Chap 7 of Simon, D. E. (1999). An Embedded Software Primer
• Chap 5 and 6 of Barry R. (2018). Mastering the FreeRTOS™ Real Time Kernel A Hands-On Tutorial Guide
• Chapter 3 Zhu, M. Y. (2016). Understanding FreeRTOS: A requirement analysis

Required reading:

• Chap 2 of Buttazzo, G. C. (2011). Hard Real-Time Computing Systems: Predictable Scheduling Algorithms and Applications (Real-Time Systems Series, 24) (3rd ed. 2011 ed.). Springer.

Suggested readings:

• Chap 1 of Cottet, F., Delacroix, J., Mammeri, Z., & Kaiser, C. (2002). Scheduling in Real-Time Systems (1st ed.). Wiley.

Required Readings:

• Chap 2 of Cottet, F., Delacroix, J., Mammeri, Z., & Kaiser, C. (2002). Scheduling in Real-Time Systems (1st ed.). Wiley.
• Do exercises 2.1, 2.2

Suggested readings

• Fixed-priority pre-emptive scheduling
• Deadline monotonic scheduling

Required Readings:

• Chap 3 of Cottet, F., Delacroix, J., Mammeri, Z., & Kaiser, C. (2002). Scheduling in Real-Time Systems (1st ed.). Wiley.
• Do exercises 3.1

Suggested readings

• Deadline scheduling of tasks with ready times and resource constraints
• What really happened on Mars Rover Pathfinder
• Introduction to Priority Inversion
• How to use priority inheritance
• Priority ceiling protocol
• Stack Resource Policy

Suggested:

• Edwards, L. (2014a). So You Wanna Be an Embedded Engineer: The Guide to Embedded Engineering, from Consultancy to the Corporate Ladder. Newnes.
• A curated list of awesome embedded resource
• A curated list of delightful Embedded Systems libraries, RTOSes, packages, and references!