CSU, Chico Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

EECE 437:Real-Time Embedded Systems

Prerequisites:CSCI 111; EECE 221 or CSCI 221; Recommended: CSCI 112 and EECE 320 or CSCI 320

Required for CMPE

Catalog Description: This course presents the concepts and techniques associated with designing, developing, and testing real-time and embedded systems. Topics include the nature and uses of real-time systems, architecture and design of real-time systems, embedded development and debugging environments, embedded programming techniques, real-time operating systems and real-time scheduling and algorithms. Special attention is given to the study of real-time process scheduling and performance, including mathematical analysis of scheduling algorithms. Formerly ECE 252.

Course Objectives:

• know the components of an OS
• understand the differences between a traditional OS and a real-time OS
• understand performance issues in a real-time OS
• know the characteristics of the Wind River VxWorks OS

Course Outcomes:

Students shall be able to:

• design, write and test programs that run in a real-time environment
• develop tasks that communicate with each other
• use semaphores to control concurrent tasks
• download code to an embedded processon
• write programs using the Wind River development environment

Class/Laboratory schedule:

• One hundred minutes a week lecture
• One hundred minutes a week activity

Contribution of Course to Meet the Professional Component:

• Engineering Science: 1.5 units
• Engineering Design: 1.5 units

Relationship of Course to Program Outcomes and Objective:

This course makes significant contributions the following program outcomes:

• An ability to design a system, component, or process to meet desired needs
• An ability to identify, formulate and solve engineering problems
• An ability to use the techniques, skills, and modern engineering tools necessary for engineering practice

This course supports the achievement of the following elements of the program objective:

• Apply knowledge of mathematics, science, and engineering to identify, formulate, and solve computer engineering problems
• Use industry standard tools to analyze, design, develop and test computer-based systems containing both hardware and software components.
• Achieve success in graduate programs in computer engineering, electrical engineering or computer science.
• Continue to develop their knowledge and skills after graduation in order to succeed personally and contribute to employer success.

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