Embedded and Real-Time Systems / Real-Time Operating Systems

EE445M, Unique: 16470, 16475, 16480, 16485, 16490
EE380L.12, Unique: 16775, 16780, 16785, 16790, 16795
Semester: Spring 2020

Graduate students should register for EE380L.12 and undergraduates should register for EE445M (credit for both will not be allowed).



Laboratories

Lab policies: EE445M/EE380L.12 Laboratory Policies, including Grading policy about coding style

Lab tips and guidelines: EE445M/EE380L.12 Debugging Tips

Instructions Task
Lab 1 Real-time clock, Sitronix ST7735R Display, ADC and graphics drivers on the TM4C123 board running on an ARM Cortex-M4 (review of EE445L)
Lab 2 Real-time operating system kernel (thread switching and synchronization)
  1. Cooperative and preemptive schedule
  2. Periodic and switch interrupts, and spin-lock semaphores
Lab 3 Blocking semaphores, priority scheduling, performance measures, dumping RTOS profile data to the PC
Lab 4 Solid state disk, SSI, address translation, layered software, file system
Lab 5 Memory management, process loader, process creation and linking
Lab 6 Networking, Internet-of-Things (IoT), TCP/IP, remote procedure call (RPC)
Lab 7 System design project, multi-threaded application example

 


Lab Schedule

Week First Session Second Session Friday 5pm Comments
1/20 - - - No lab activities
1/27 Meet the TA Select partners   Keil demo
2/3 Lab 1 Prep     Spectrum analyzer demo
2/10 Lab 1 Demo Lab 2.1 Prep Lab 1 Report  
2/17 Lab 2.1 Demo Lab 2.2 Prep   Lab 2.1 has no report
2/24   Lab 2.2 Demo Lab 2.2 Report  
3/2 Lab 3 Prep      
3/9 Lab 3 Demo   Lab 3 Report Hard deadline on Lab 3
3/16 Spring Break If Lab 3 is not demonstrated, revert and complete rest with Lab 2 OS.
3/23 Extended Spring Break
3/30 Lab 4 Prep     Midterm is 4/2 (tentative)
4/6 Lab 4 Demo Lab 5 Prep Lab 4 Report  
4/13 Lab 5 Demo Lab 5 Report  
4/20   Lab 6 Prep    
4/27 Lab 6 Demo Lab 7 Prep Lab 6 Report  
5/4 Lab 7 Demo Lab 7 Report Turn in all reports and equipment by 5/8

Prep: Turn in your lap preparation
Demo: Demonstrate your lab to the TA
Report: Turn in your complete lab report (online on Canvas) and submit all your files (online Github repository)
 


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