ECEA 5317 Mission-Critical, SW Applications
3rd course in the Real-time Embedded SystemsÌýSpecialization.
Instructor:ÌýSam Siewert, Ph.D., Associate Professor AdjunctÌý
Upon completion of this course, the learner will know the difference between systems you can bet your life on (mission critical) and those which provide predictable response and quality of service (reliable). This will be achieved not only by study of design methods and patterns for mission critical systems, but also through implementation of soft real-time systems and comparison to hard real-time.
Prior knowledge needed:ÌýECEA 5315ÌýConcept and Practices, ECEA 5316ÌýTheory and Analysis, C Programming and Compilation Pipeline,ÌýComputer System Architecture, Operating Systems Concepts, Linux based Systems
Learning Outcomes
Properly assess risk, reliability and impact of failure in real-time systems.
Apply an architectural style (cyclic executive, RTOS, or embedded Linux) to more detailed design of a mission critical system, a soft real-time system, or a mixed hard and soft real-time system.
Thorough understanding of hardware/software device interfaces and resource view for hardware abstraction layers (HAL, BSP)
Design trade-offs with different real-time hardware architectures including single core, multi-core, hybrid-FPGA, GP-GPU, and DSP systems, with emphasis on multi-core
Mission critical embedded systems architecture and key design elements
Fault tolerant processing, memory, and I/O concepts
Syllabus
Duration: 16Ìýhours
This module covers RTES software to hardware interface using device abstraction and driver interfaces as well as system scaling.
Duration: 15Ìýhours
This module covers use of key algorithms such as error correct codes, redundant arrays of devices, and use of flashÌýfile systems with persistent memory.
Duration: 11Ìýhours
Service software implementation efficiency and optimization methods are covered so that computations can be completed by deadlines. Methods of profiling and tracing applications Ìýas well as the whole system are covered.
Duration: 11Ìýhours
This module integrates fault tolerant and recovery methods with overall strategies for system level fault detection, isolation and recovery.ÌýDesign with consideration of failure modes and effects analysis is covered along with redundancy management for high availability.
Duration: 2Ìýhours
Final exam for this course. If you've upgraded from the non-credit to theÌýfor-credit version of this course, please make sure you review the additional for-credit materials in the Introductory module and anywhere else they may be found.
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Grading
Assignment | Percentage of Grade |
Quizzes | 10% |
Programming Assignments & Peer reviews | 60% |
Final Exam | 30% |
Letter Grade RubricÌý
Letter GradeÌý | Minimum Percentage |
A | 95% |
| A- | 90% |
| B+ | 87% |
B | 84% |
| B- | 80% |
| C+ | 77% |
C | 74% |
| C- | 70% |
| D+ | 67% |
D | 60% |
F | 0% |