ECE6881 Real-time system design
Faculty of Engineering
ECE6881 Real-time system design is a level 6, 0-credit-point, postgraduate unit from the Faculty of Engineering, offered in 2020 in Semester 1 at Clayton. It has no prerequisites.
- Credit points
- 0
- Offered in 2020
- Semester 1
- Clayton
This is the 2020 handbook entry. See the 2027 entry.
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Requisites
Before ECE6881
Prohibitions
You can't enrol if you have passed any of these.
After ECE6881
No unit lists ECE6881 as a prerequisite in the 2020 handbook.
Overview
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.
Offerings in 2020
| Teaching period | Campus | Mode |
|---|---|---|
| First semester | Clayton | On campus |
Learning outcomes
When you finish this unit, you should be able to:
- 1
explain the development process for real-time systems from specification, simulation, implementation and testing
- 2
design and implement interface logic to a bus system and its associated arbitration logic using a hardware description language
- 3
describe the effectiveness and benefits of deploying a real-time operating system in software development of a real-time system
- 4
compare, measure and analyse the performance and overhead of real-time scheduling policies of a real-time operating system
- 5
design and analyse hardware accelerators that improve real-time system performance in areas such as energy use, latency and throughput
- 6
formulate, plan, create, document and test a solution to a real-time system design problem in a team framework using a real-time kernel and a hardware description language.
Workload and teaching
2 hours lectures, 3 hours laboratory and 7 hours private study per week
Where it fits
ECE6881 is part of 1 area of study in the 2020 handbook.
Contacts
- Unit Coordinators
- Horace Josh
- Chief Examiners
- Professor Tom Drummond
Common questions
What are the prerequisites for ECE6881?
ECE6881 has no prerequisites.
When is ECE6881 offered?
In 2020, ECE6881 runs in Semester 1 at Clayton.
Which majors and minors include ECE6881?
ECE6881 is part of Engineering PhD program.