C for Real-Time Developers by Doulos Ltd

Product Description

This course is delivered in co-operation with Doulos' training partner Feabhas, who specialise in training courses for real-time embedded developers.

Learning the C programming language is one thing, but learning to use it effectively and appropriately in a real-time embedded environment is another. This course teaches the C programming language through the pragmatic use of C in a real-time environment. This is achieved through both lecture and direct hands-on experience. As part of the course, approximately 50% of the time is given over to writing code for a real target. During the week, attendees build up a complete solution to a case study that exercises all significant parts of the course.

• To provide an understanding of the essentials of the C programming language.
• To give you practical experience of writing C for real-time & embedded systems.
• To demonstrate the traps and pitfalls of the language when used in a real-time system.
• To give you the confidence to apply these new concepts to your next real-time project.

The course is designed for engineers who are embarking on a project using C for the first time. It is also suitable for those having to support a customer using C, and those requiring to be brought up to date since initially being taught at University.

Introduction to Real-Time Systems
- Characteristics and demands of real-time software development
Introduction to C Programming
- Structure of a C program
- The C compilation process
Types and Operators
- C base types
- Precedence & associativity
- Arithmetic operations
Control Flow
- Logical expressions and operations
- Decision Making
- Loops
Pointers
- Pointer basics
Bit Manipulation & Hardware Access
- Accessing hardware with pointers
- Manipulating information at the bit level
- General Purpose IO (GPIO)
Functions
- The Function as a logical program unit
- How parameters are passed
- Memory segments
Arrays, Pointers and Strings
- Arrays as circular buffers
- Relationship between pointers & arrays
- Pointer arithmetic
- C string handling
Device Interaction & Synchronization
- Polling devices
- Serial peripheral programming
Structures and Unions
- Structures;
- Big & Little Endian
- Unions
- Using structures to access I/O devices
- Bit-field structures
Interrupts
- Internal & External interrupt control
- Nested Interrupts
- Priorities & Masks
- Software Interrupts
Dynamic Memory Management
- Malloc and free
- Linked list
- Issues (leaks, fragmentation, etc.)
Program Structure
- Definitions and declarations;
- Header files
- Scope and lifetime
The C Pre-Processor
- Macros
- Conditional Compilation
Program Design Concepts
- Why modular design?
- Coupling and cohesion
- Testing the program
Concurrency
- Scheduling strategies
- Context switching
- Function pointers
- Task synchronisation and communication
- MMU and memory protection
- Concurrency and libraries

C for Real-Time Developers

Market Segment(s)

• General Purpose Products/Services