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 understand the fundamentals building blocks of a digital instrument.
 understand the different methods of Data Transmission System.
 acquire the concept of various instrumentation Bus.
 acquire detail knowledge on building blocks of a “Virtual Instrumentation System.
 acquire detail knowledge on industrial process measurements.

Reference Books(s):
1 A.J. Bouwens, “Digital Instrumentation” , TATA McGraw-Hill Edition, 1998.
2 N. Mathivanan, “Microprocessors, PC Hardware and Interfacing”, Prentice-Hall India, 2005.
3 H S Kalsi, “Electronic Instrumentation” Second Edition, Tata McGraw-Hill,2006.
Joseph J. Carr, “Elements of Electronic Instrumentation and Measurement” Third Edition, Pearson Education,
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2003.
5 Buchanan, “Computer busses”, Arnold, London,2000.
6 Jonathan W Valvano, “Embedded Microcomputer systems”, Asia Pvt. Ltd., Brooks/Cole, Thomson, 2001.

Subject Code Subject Name (Theory course) Category L T P C
ET19P22 REAL TIME OPERATING SYSTEMS PE 3 0 0 3

Objectives:
 To expose the students to the fundamentals of interaction of OS with a computer and User computation.
 To teach the fundamental concepts of how process are created and controlled with OS.
 To study on programming logic of modeling Process based on range of OS features.
 To compare types and Functionalities in commercial OS.
 To discuss the application development using RTOS.

UNIT-I REVIEW OF OPERATING SYSTEMS 9
Basic Principles - Operating System structures – System Calls – Files – Processes – Design and Implementation of
processes – Communication between processes – Introduction to Distributed operating system – issues in distributed
system: states, events, clocks-Distributed scheduling-Fault & recovery.
UNIT-II OVERVIEW OF RTOS 9
RTOS Task and Task state –Multithreaded Premptive scheduler- Process Synchronization-Message queues– Mail
boxes -pipes – Critical section – Semaphores – Classical synchronization problem – Deadlocks.
UNIT-III REAL TIME MODELS AND LANGUAGES 9
Event Based – Process Based and Graph based Models – Real Time Languages – RTOS Tasks – RT scheduling -
Interrupt processing – Synchronization – Control Blocks – Memory Requirements..
UNIT-IV REAL TIME KERNEL 9
Principles – Design issues – Polled Loop Systems – RTOS Porting to a Target – Comparison and Basic study of
various RTOS like – VX works – Linux supportive RTOS – C Executive.
UNIT-V RTOS APPLICATION DOMAINS 9
Case studies-RTOS for Image Processing – Embedded RTOS for Network communication- RTOS for fault-Tolerant
Applications – RTOS for Control Systems.
Total Contact Hours : 45

Course Outcomes:
At the end of the course the student will be able to:
 distinguish a real-time system from other systems.
 identify the functions of operating system.
 evaluate the need for real-time operating system.
 implement the real-time operating system principles.
 design an application using RTOS