FYS 4220

If you plan to pursue a career in research/development for information technology, in companies or at the university, then FYS 4220 (former FYS326) is the course for you. It combines a theoretical curriculum in Real-Time concepts and programming with a hands-on experience at the lab working with state-of-the-art instrumentation systems.

Emnebeskrivelse (Description of the course)

Lectures: Monday 10.15 - 12, Aud. 262Ø
Colloquia ("Regneøvelser"): Monday 14.15 - 16, Aud. 262Ø.
Lab: Room 318V

This course is problem oriented; the students shall with practical exercises in the lab transfer the more theoretical curriculum of the lectures into "live" examples.

Curriculum

The theoretical curriculum is contained in the book "Real-Time Systems and Programming Languages" by Alan Burns and Andy Wellings, University of York, Addison-Wesley, third edition (B&W). Note some very useful URLs quoted in the PREFACE.

Curriculum 2003 (in Norwegian), PDF format

Lecture notes

The text of "Real-Time Systems and Programming Languages" (B&W) is complemented by PowerPoint presentations prepared by the authors for most of the chapters. Thanks to them!
The following B&W presentations have been adapted to FYS 4220 by the lecturer. They are all in PDF format.

Programming in the small (B&W Ch. 3)
Programming in the large (B&W Ch. 4)
RTOS and concurrent processes (B&W Ch. 7)
Shared variable-based synchronization and communication (B&W Ch. 8)
Message-based synchronization and communication (B&W Ch. 9)
Process scheduling (B&W Ch. 13)
Exceptions and exception handling (B&W Ch. 6)
Atomic actions, concurrent processes and reliability (B&W Ch. 10)
Resource control (B&W Ch. 11)
Reliability and fault tolerance (B&W Ch. 5)
Real-Time facilities (B&W Ch. 12)
Distributed systems (B&W Ch. 14)
Hardware (B&W Ch. 15 + MVME147)
VMEbus
Data Acquisition systems

Lecture plan

23 Aug 10:15

Introduction to Real-Time Systems

General overview (PDF) and B&W Ch. 1

23 Aug 14:15

Introduction to the lab course and the exercises

Lab Book 2004, PDF.

30 Aug 10:15

Programming and Languages

B&W Chapters 2, 3, plus endian note

30 Aug 14:15

More about VxWorks

VxWorks documentation and Lab Book 2004

6 Sep 10:15

Real-time kernels and concurrent processes

Lecture note including B&W Chapter 7

6 Sep 14:15

Lab work

Room 318 on-site tech support!

13 Sep 10:15

Shared variable interprocess communication

B&W Chapter 8

13 Sep 14:15

Shared variable interprocess communication

VxWorks

20 Sep 10:15

Lecture cancelled due to travelling

Time for lab work

20 Sep 14:15

Colloqium cancelled due to travelling

Time for lab work

27 Sep 10:15

Message based interprocess communication

B&W Chapter 9

27 Sep 14:15

Message interprocess communication

VxWorks

4 Okt 10:15

Process scheduling - del 1

B&W Chapter 13

4 Okt 14:15

Innstilt pga CERN-forelesning

Georg Sverdrups hus, Aud. 1

11 Oct 10:15

Process scheduling - del 2

B&W Chapter 13

11 Oct 14:15

Lab activity

Room 318

18 Oct 10:15

Lab activity

Room 318

18 Oct 14:15

Lecture cancelled

25 Oct 10:15

Exception handling

B&W Ch. 6. Demo code ex_excLib.c

25 Oct 14:15

Atomic actions, error recovery, POSIX signals

B&W Ch. 10. Demo code signal_error_handling.c

1 Nov 10:15

Resource control, memory management

B&W Ch. 11 (15)

1 Nov 14:15

VxWorks demo og support

Room 318

8 Nov 10:15

Reliability and fault tolerance

B&W Ch. 5

8 Nov 14:15

VxWorks demo og support

Room 318

15 Nov 10:15

Real-time facilities

B&W Ch. 12. Demo code timer_intv_check.c

15 Nov 14:15

VxWorks demo og support

Room 318

22 Nov 10:15

Distributed systems

B&W Ch. 14

22 Nov 14:15

Hardware og MVME147/MC68030

B&W Ch. 15 og MVME147

29 Nov 10:15

Instrumentation/processor busses

VMEbus

6 Dec 10:15

A data acquisition system kernel

Lecture note DAQ systems

6 Dec 14:15

Avsluttende kollokvium

Underveiseksamer, pensum, eksamen

Lab work and exercises

Students 2004

Eksamen 2004, 20 desember