ECEA 5316 Theory and Analysis
offered by University of Colorado Boulder

ECEA 5316 Theory and Analysis
at
University of Colorado Boulder
Overview

Learn differences between fixed priority rate monotonic policy and dynamic priority earliest deadline first and least laxity policies

Skills you will learn

What are the course deliverables?

Rate monotonic theory (complete math models)
Scheduling theory and practice writing code for multi-frequency executives, priority preemptive RTOS services, and real-time threaded services on traditional operating systems (Linux)
Building a simple Linux multi-service system using POSIX real-time extensions on Raspberry Pi 3b using sequencing and methods to log and verify agreement between theory and practice
Timing diagram generation and analysis using Cheddar

More about this course

This course provides an in-depth and full mathematical derivation and review of models for scheduling policies and feasibility determination by hand and with rate monotonic tools along with comparison to actual performance for real-time scheduled threads running on a native Linux system

Week 1

Real-Time Scheduling and Rate Monotonic Least Upper Bound Derivation

Week 2

Service Design Feasibility Analysis Practice and Methods of Implementation

Week 3

Dynamic priority Earliest Deadline First and Least Laxity First

Week 4

Synchronization and Bounded vs. Unbounded Blocking

Week 5

Final Exam

Eligibility criteria Up Arrow Icon

Prerequisites: ECEA 5315 Concept and Practices, C Programming and Compilation Pipeline, Computer System Architecture, Operating Systems Concepts, Linux based Systems, C Programming and Compilation Pipeline, Computer System Architecture, Operating Systems Concepts, Linux based Systems

Conditional Offer Up Arrow Icon

Yes
The University of Colorado Boulder offers conditional admission to international students who meet the academic requirements for admission but need to improve their English language skills before starting an academic degree program. Students who receive conditional admission to the University of Colorado Boulder will be allowed to start their degree program after they have met the requirement for English proficiency.
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