Real-Time Kernels for Microcontrollers: Theory and Practice

Real-time scheduling and resource management

• Introduction
• Real-time scheduling algorithms and analysis
• Handling resource constraints

Real-time kernels for embedded systems

• Microcontrollers for embedded real-time applications
• Differences from a general purpose OS (e.g., Linux)
• Stack sharing (Immediate Priority Ceiling and Stack Resource Policy)
• Preemption thresholding and optimization of stack usage
• Implementation of shared stacks

FLEX: a flexible development board

• Characteristics and features
• The integration with Erika Enterprise

Erika Enterprise and OSEK standard

• Introduction
• The OSEK/VDX standard
   OSEK OS: programming interface and system calls
   OSEK OIL, ORTI: details and examples
• Examples using Erika Enterprise

Development with Erika Enterprise

• Introduction
• Characteristics and features
• Primitives
• I/O management and drivers
• Programming - using the built-in projects
• Debug a project

Development using Erika Enterprise and FLEX

• Automatic code generation: Scilab/Scicos
• Practical example using the demo board

• Introduction to wireless sensor networks
• MAC protocols: CSMA/CA, TDMA and 802.15.4/ZigBee

Embedded systems and Wireless communication (part 2)

• The OpenZB implementation
• OpenZB and Erika