Embedded Software Architecture

Course Overview

Course Length:

1 Day

CEUs:

0.7

Format:

Lecture

Most efforts to improve software quality focus exclusively on process improvements, such as adoption of coding standards and better use of static analysis tools, code reviews, and testing. But poor software quality also results from bad decisions about the architecture of that software. Thus software architecture is an area for your team to understand better and architecture improvements can be among the easiest ways to increase software quality.

This course teaches software architecture with a focus specifically on real-time and embedded software.

Topics covered during this course include:

Architecture Defined
Real-Time Operating Systems
RTOS Alternatives
Event-Driven Programming

This course is appropriate for:

Embedded software developers
Embedded system architects
Technical managers

Prerequisites: Attendees should be generally familiar with the terminology of real-time embedded systems.

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Syllabus

The following is a summary of the major course topics and should not be considered the section-by-subsection lecture breakdown.

Architecture Defined

What is Software Architecture?
Three Competing Schools
Attributes of Good Firmware Architecture
The Real-Time Hierarchy

Real-Time Operating Systems

Preemptive Scheduling
Avoiding Race Conditions
Meeting Deadlines
Semaphores, Mailboxes, and Message Queues
Avoiding Starvation and Deadlock
Multithreaded Programming Principles

RTOS Alternatives

Implications of Preemption
Foreground-Background
Interrupt-Driven Systems
Run-to-Completion
Cyclic Executive
Protothreads

Event-Driven Programming

Reactive Programming
Event Queues
Active Objects
State Machine Frameworks

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