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Real-time system design
ECE5881
Synopsis
The unit aims to enable you to understand, analyse, specify, design and test real-time systems using both hardware and software development. Migration between software and hardware will be considered as an approach to meet design criterion such as speed, throughput, energy usage and cost.
The design, analysis and implementation of real-time operating systems will be studied and will include scheduling policies, process creation and management, inter-process communication and synchronisation, efficient handling of I/O and communication.
You will complete a major team design project that includes hardware and software design of a real-time system.
Sourced from the Monash Handbook 2026.
Quick facts
- Credit points
- 6
- Level
- 5
- Audience
- Postgraduate
- Type
- Coursework
- School
- Faculty of Engineering
- Faculty
- Department of Electrical and Computer Systems Engineering
- Handbook year
- 2026
Prerequisites
No prereqs in the handbook graph.
What it unlocks
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Listed in 2 areas of study
- Electrical and computer systems engineeringElectrical and computer systems engineering technical electives
- Robotics and mechatronics engineeringRobotics and mechatronics engineering technical electives