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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