EE382C Embedded Software Systems
Real-Time Operating Systems

Announcements

• Homework #2 will be assigned later today. It is due on Monday by 5 PM.

Lecture

• Lecture on Real-Time Operating Systems
  • Fall 2001 version in PowerPoint and PDF formats
  • Fall 2002 version in PDF format. The Fall 2002 version has a better description of priority inversion.
• Pitfalls in Programming with Threads in the Mars Rover
• Operating systems with Posix-compliant threads (from Dr. Wan-Teh Chang, Netscape):
  • Solaris 2.5 and above
  • HP-UX 10.30, 11.00
  • Irix 6.2 and above - in 6.2, pthreads are available as a kernel patch; for 6.3 and higher, pthreads is standard.
  • AIX 4.1 and above
  • Digital Unix V4.0B and above
  • Linux 2.0

Supplemental Information

• "Rate Monotonic Analysis for Static Scheduling of Real-Time Systems", by Mr. Nate Forman in PowerPoint format