VxWorks® Advanced Concepts

This course leads participants into the depths of VxWorks® real time operating system. VxWorks® is a popular real-time multi-tasking operating system for embedded microprocessor systems and offers a wide area of real time facilities and networking protocols. This training includes both theoretical and practical sections.

• Discovering and understanding the VxWorks® advanced features
• Learning the VxWorks® kernel architecture, its RTOS facilities and how to debug the kernel/user applications
• Designing and implementing a real-time applications using VxWorks®

What is a RTOS
VxWorks® Overview: history and clients, key features
VxWorks® Kernel: Architecture, Configuration, Customization
Multitasking: Tasks Management, Task Scheduling, Task Error Status
Intertask and Interprocess Communication and Synchronization:

• Semaphores
• Message queues & pipes
• VxWorks® Events
• Signals - Exceptions
• Timers
• Interupts

Memory Management
I/O System
File Systems
VxWorks® Initialization Timeline
Multiprocessing
Examples
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