Abstract
We are developing a teaching package that can be used in a college course that would fill a gap among current science majors and teach senior-level undergraduate students theory and practice of real-time operating systems, including their requirements, characteristics, internals, and specification. This course has two components: (1) a theoretical part, and (2) a practical hands-on implementation component achieved with DORITOS (Distributed Object-Based Real-time InsTructional Operating System) as the implementation environment. DORITOS' design is based on UC-Berkeley's NACHOS. The DORITOS package will be distributed with DKaffe (a modified version of Kaffe JVM) and a basic system which allows students to run simple threads. In this paper, we focus on the practical, hands-on system that allows students to learn the internals of a Real-time Operating Systems (RTOS). Throughout the term, assignments require students to use and modify DORITOS to implement real-time elements as well as to analyze the performance of implemented algorithms.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 68-72 |
Number of pages | 5 |
Journal | SIGCSE Bulletin (Association for Computing Machinery, Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education) |
Volume | 31 |
Issue number | 1 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Mar 1999 |
Externally published | Yes |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Software
- Food Science
- Hardware and Architecture