Delves into building efficient safety-critical systems, emphasizing the importance of worst-case execution times and the challenges of integrating efficiency considerations into design processes.
Introduces the fundamental concepts of scheduling in operating systems, covering limited direct execution, protection rings, context switching, and various scheduling policies.
Explores coordination and scheduling in operating systems, covering lost wakeup problems, scheduling algorithms, and coordination primitives like sleep and wakeup.
Introduces control basics, real-time programming, interrupts, and sensor networks in embedded systems, emphasizing resource management and real-time constraints.