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Course unit, curriculum year 2021–2022
COMP.CE.460

Real-time systems, 5 cr

Tampere University
Teaching periods
Active in period 1 (1.8.2021–23.10.2021)
Active in period 2 (24.10.2021–31.12.2021)
Course code
COMP.CE.460
Language of instruction
English
Academic year
2021–2022
Level of study
Advanced studies
Grading scale
General scale, 0-5
Persons responsible
Responsible teacher:
Esko Pekkarinen
Responsible teacher:
Panu Sjövall
Responsible organisation
Faculty of Information Technology and Communication Sciences 100 %
Coordinating organisation
Computing Sciences Studies 100 %
Core content
  • Principles of real-time operating system
  • Linux operating system
  • Building Linux on standard platforms using basic tools
  • Debugging Linux
  • Developing Linux device drivers
  • Virtual memory
  • Interrupt handling
  • Prototyping and simulation tools
Complementary knowledge
  • RTOS implementations
  • Kernel space development
  • Yocto build system for custom platforms
  • Typical kernel-space bugs
  • Boot and run time driver loading
  • Virtual and physical memory mapping
  • Delayed processing
  • Measurements
Specialist knowledge
  • Selecting RTOS for a specific purpose
  • RT-Linux
  • Building Linux for SoC-FPGA
  • Studying Kernel Panic by stacktrace
  • Linux Device Tree
  • Minimizing memory access latency
  • Hardware assisted interrupt processing
  • Real-time performance benchmarking
Learning outcomes
Prerequisites
Compulsory prerequisites
Recommended prerequisites
Further information
Equivalences
Studies that include this course
Completion option 1
Approved exercises and an optional final exam.

Participation in teaching

30.08.2021 12.12.2021
Active in period 1 (1.8.2021–23.10.2021)
Active in period 2 (24.10.2021–31.12.2021)