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ECE6881

Faculty of Engineering

18 September 2017 31 December 2024

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Monash University

0 points, SCA Band 2, 0.000 EFTSL

Postgraduate - Unit

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Faculty

Engineering

Organisational Unit

Department of Electrical and Computer Systems Engineering

Coordinator(s)

Associate Professor Lindsay Kleeman

Offered

Clayton

  • First semester 2016 (Day)

Notes

This unit is available only to Engineering PhD students.

Synopsis

The unit aims to enable students to understand, analyse, specify, design and test real-time systems using both hardware and software development. Migration between software and hardware will be considered as an approach to meet design criterion such as sped, throughput, energy usage and cost.

The design, analysis and implementation of real-time operating systems will be studied and will include scheduling policies, process creation and management, inter-process communication and synchronisation, efficient handling of I/O and communication.

Students will complete a major team design project that includes hardware and software design of a real-time system.

Outcomes

On successful completion of this unit, students will be able to:

  • explain the development process for real time systems from specification, simulation, implementation and testing;
  • design and implement interface logic to a bus system and its associated arbitration logic using a hardware description language;
  • describe the effectiveness and benefits of deploying a real time operating system in software development of a real time system;
  • compare, measure and analyse the performance and overhead of real time scheduling policies of a real time operating system;
  • design and analyse hardware accelerators that improve real time system performance in areas such as energy use, latency and throughput; and
  • formulate, plan, create, document and test a solution to a real time system design

problem in a team framework using a real time kernel and a hardware description language.

Assessment

Continuous assessment: 50%
Examination (3 hours): 50%

Students are required to achieve at least 45% in the total continuous assessment component and at least 45% in the final examination component and an overall mark of 50% to achieve a pass grade in the unit.

Workload requirements

2 hours lectures, 3 hours laboratory and 7 hours private study per week

See also Unit timetable information

Chief examiner(s)

Prof Tom Drummond

Prohibitions

ECE4075