Advanced real time C programming | Faculty of Technical Sciences

Subject: Advanced real time C programming (17.RT49N)

Type of studies	Title
Undergraduate Academic Studies	Measurement-Information Technologies and Control Engineering (Year: 4, Semester: Winter)
Undergraduate Academic Studies	Software Engineering and Information Technologies (Year: 4, Semester: Winter)

General information:

Category	Scientific-professional
Scientific or art field	Computer Engineering and Computer Communication
ECTS	4

The aim is to help students develop understanding of hardware-software interaction through mechanisms of C programing language. Intention is to make students capable of developing software in C, independently and meticulously, with deeper understanding of their code.

After finishing this course it is expected that students will be able to design and implement industrial grade software of average complexity, using C language and for a variety of target platform.

Characteristics of software that directly relays on hardware. Software debugging and role of the processor simulator. More detailed knowledge of some elements of C programming language: size and representation of basic types; variable representation in hardware; memory allocation mechanisms; functions and calling convention; pointers and their relation to arrays; little and big endian; structures, unions and address alignment; build process and pre-processing. Revision control systems. Basic data structures that are frequently used in special purpose real-time systems. Special C language extensions: standard extension and compiler specific. Safety and reliability related topics: testing procedures, MISRA (and similar) rules and static code analysis.

Lectures. Computer labs. Office hours. Pre-exam obligations include a student project. Final exam covers theoretical knowledge.

Authors	Title	Year	Publisher	Language
David J. Agans	Debugging—The Nine Indispensable Rules for Finding Even the Most Elusive Software and Hardware Problems	2002	Amacom	English
Nermann Kopetz	REAL-TIME SYSTEMS Design Principles for Distributed Embedded Applications	2002	Kluwer Academic Publishers	English
Milan Stevanovic	Advanced C and C++ Compiling	2014	Apress	English