Courses Handbook 2007 - [ Archived ]

308792 (v.1) Real-Time Operating Systems 301


Area:

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Credits:

25.0

Contact Hours:

5.0
 
** The tuition pattern below provides details of the types of classes and their duration. This is to be used as a guide only. For more precise information please check your unit outline. **
 

Lecture:

1 x 2 Hours Weekly

Practical:

1 x 3 Hours Weekly

Prerequisite(s):

    307540 (v.1) Engineering Computing 100 or any previous version
    OR
    12713 (v.3) Embedded Software Engineering 204 or any previous version
 

Syllabus:

Operating system principle and functions. Concurrency - models, deadlock, mutual exclusion and implementation. Scheduling principles, forms of scheduling, constraints, scheduling processes and threads. An introduction to real-time principles. Memory and file management. Device management. Security and protection. Unix. Embedded and memory-based operating systems. Larger scale real-time operating systems. Real-time serving. Operating system (OS) tuning. Script programming at the OS level.
 
** To ensure that the most up-to-date information about unit references, texts and outcomes appears, they will be provided in your unit outline prior to commencement. **
 

Field of Education:

031305 Computer Engineering

Funding Cluster:

08 - Engineering, Science, Surveying

SOLT (Online) Definitions*:

Essential
*Extent to which this unit or thesis utilises online information

Result Type:

Grade/Mark

Availability

Year Location Period Internal Partially Online Internal Area External Central External Fully Online
2007 Bentley Campus Semester 1 Y        
2007 Miri Sarawak Campus Semester 1 Y        
Area
External
refers to external course/units run by the School or Department or offered by research.
Central
External
refers to external and online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area
Partially
Online
Internal
refers to some (a portion of) learning provided by interacting with or downloading pre-packaged material from the Internet but with regular and ongoing participation with a face-to-face component retained. Excludes partially online internal course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External
Fully
Online
refers to the main (larger portion of) mode of learning provided via Internet interaction (including the downloading of pre-packaged material on the Internet). Excludes online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External

 
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