Embedded CC++ for Real Time Systems

							  Embedded C/C++ for Real Time Systems
  Course No. 3407X                                  Type: Hands-on                                     Duration: 32 hours
  Course Overview:
  The course outlines real time operating systems, their type and their special needs. Within this context,
  embedded C and C++ are described with their use in real time systems explained.
  Who should attend?
  C and/or C++ programmers who need to program real time systems.
  Prerequisites:
  Knowledge of C and/or C++. Exposure to hardware is an advantage


  Course Content:

  1. Introduction                                                     Message queues
      Why embedded real time                                         Interrupts: ISR, Priority, Watch dog
                                                                      Timing
  2. Overview                                                         Performance parameters
      Definitions                                                    RTOS samples: VxWorks, Windows CE
       - Real Time: Hard RT, Soft RT
       - Embedded                                                  4. Embedded C
      Application domain                                              Embedded C programming concepts
      Requirements & restrictions                                     Embedded C and program elements
      Programming Paradigms                                           Variable scope, volatile qualifiers and modifiers
       - Reactive – Interrupt driven                                   Program structures
       - Concurrency                                                   Recursion
       - Synchronization                                               Implementing basic data structures: pointers,
       - Communication
                                                                        arrays, queues, stacks, lists
      Embedded Platforms                                              Pre-processor compiler directives and cross
      Drivers                                                          compilers
      Determining Endianness of processors: why it                    Inline assembly and its necessity
       matters                                                         Macros v functions
                                                                       Source code engineering tools
  3. Real-time Operating Systems (RTOS)                                Optimization
      Features
      Multitasking
                                                                   5. Embedded C++ (EC++)
       - Tasks                                                         Goals
       - Preemption
                                                                       Benefits
       - Context Switch
                                                                       Memory restrictions
       - Scheduling
                                                                       EC++ Versus C++
         o Priority
                                                                        - Differences: Multiple inheritance, virtual base
            * Inversion
                                                                          classes, templates, exceptions, runtime type
            * Inheritance
                                                                          identification, virtual function tables and mutable
         o Starvation
                                                                          specifiers.
         o Aging
                                                                       ROMable code
            * Synchronization
               - Semaphores
                                                                   6. Summary
               - Critical Section
               - Deadlock
            * Communications
               - Signals




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