This course will provide students with an introduction to operating systems theory, and practical problem solving approaches to real-time systems. An embedded real-time operating system is used as the foundation for a variety of programming projects. Students, upon successful completion of this course, will be able to understand the operation and describe the various components of an operating system. They will be able to evaluate design trade-offs and selection criteria for different types of operating systems, and demonstrate the ability to write multiple process that run together within an embedded, real-time operating system.

This project-based course is the culmination of the curriculum capstone experience for the Computer Engineering Technology program. This course is focused on a project that includes: product ideation, project/resource management techniques and best practices; system level specification, modeling, partition and design; team collaboration and communication; best documentation practices; industry-level coding practices; hardware and software co-design methodologies; design reuse and intellectual property creation; design verification and validation; and design sign-off.