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

Area:	Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Credits:	25.0
Contact Hours:	4.0
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
Tutorial:	1 x 1 Hours Fortnightly
Laboratory:	1 x 3 Hours Fortnightly
Prerequisite(s):	310207 (v.1) Engineering Programming 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
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
2010	Bentley Campus	Semester 1	Y
2010	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