University of Colorado Boulder
Real-Time Embedded Systems Specialization
University of Colorado Boulder

Real-Time Embedded Systems Specialization

Boost your career with real-time systems expertise. Master real-time theory, methods of analysis and design, and put them into practice.

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Sam Siewert

Instructor: Sam Siewert

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3.9

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What you'll learn

  • Rate Monotonic theory and policies

  • Methods of Rate Monontoic analysis

  • Real-time system design techniques

  • Engineering principles for allocating functionality and services to hardware, firmware or software implementation

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Specialization - 4 course series

Real-Time Embedded Systems Concepts and Practices

Course 150 hours3.8 (59 ratings)

What you'll learn

  • A beginning practitioner's understanding of rate monotonic theory, analysis, and practices for embedded systeems.

  • Implementation of real-time services as POSIX threads.

  • Difference between Linux user space and kernel space.

Skills you'll gain

Category: Posix Threads
Category: C Programming
Category: RM LUB (Rate Monotonic Least Upper Bound)
Category: Linux On Embedded Systems
Category: Multi-Core Processors

Real-Time Embedded Systems Theory and Analysis

Course 260 hours4.5 (14 ratings)

What you'll learn

  • Methods to analyze dynamic prioirty real-time service feasibility

  • Methods to control unbounded priority inversion problems

  • Avoiding and recovering from deadlock

  • Avoiding and recovering from unbounded priority inversion

Skills you'll gain

Category: Dynamic and Static Scheduling Policies
Category: Priority Ceiling Protocol
Category: Rate Monotonic Theory
Category: EDF (Earliest Deadline First)
Category: Priority Inheritance Protocol

Real-Time Mission-Critical Systems Design

Course 350 hours4.4 (12 ratings)

What you'll learn

  • Use of SECDED (Single Error Correction, Double Error Detection) codes for ECC (Error Correction Code) memories

  • How flash file systems work, along with wear leveling and the write amplification metric

  • Differences and common characteristics of high availability and high reliability

  • Methods and design for redundant hardware with cross strapping and recovery

Skills you'll gain

Category: High Availability
Category: Nand Flash Wear-Leveling
Category: Embedded Memory Systems
Category: ECC (Error Correction Code)
Category: I/O drivers

What you'll learn

  • Real-time system design concepts and decomposition of functions and indentification of key services

  • De-coupling of I/O from real-time processing to avoid response time over-runs

  • Using AMP design principles with Rate Monotonic policy, analysis and theory

  • Using AMP design principles with best-effort and parallel real-time co-processing

Skills you'll gain

Category: Concurrency (Computer Science)
Category: rate montonic analysis
Category: system debugging
Category: real-time tracing
Category: real-time design

Instructor

Sam Siewert
University of Colorado Boulder
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