CS 452/652 - Real-Time Programming

Introduction

Course Information (Winter 2018)

Administrative Details

Described in excruciating detail here.

• Instructor:
  
  • Bill Cowan, [wW][mM][cC][oO][wW][aA][nN] AT cgl DOT UWaterloo DOT ca
  • You will find a lot of useful information on his cs452 web pages.
• TAs:
  • Navid Khan
  • Neda Paryab
  • Filip Pawlega
• Class:
  • OPT 309
  • 12.30-1.20: Monday, Wednesday, Friday
• Final exam:
  • TBD
• Lab Room:
  • MC 3018
• Newsgroup:
  • No longer with us (rest in peace).
• Course mailing list:
  • cs452@cgl.uwaterloo.ca - Includes the instructor, TAs, CSCF.
• Required Reading
  • Lab Manual (quite outdated)

Course Resources

The most important resources relating to hardware and software other than the trains are on the instructor's web pages.

• Instructor's web pages
  • Printed Notes
  • Lecture Notes
  • Assignments
• Chapters 11 to 14 of the Cirrus EP9302 User's Guide. Hopefully this smaller PDF will not crash the thin clients as much. The evince document viewer seems to give the best results.

Kernel Resources

• Useful Terminal Control Sequences
• More xterm Control Sequences (local copy), most of which are usable on the terminals.
• Some Information on implementing Memory Protection

The Trains

The train set currently in use is an off-the-shelf digitally-controlled HO train manufactured by Märklin in Germany.

• Märklin Trains Website
• Märklin Digital Interface Commands
• The track layout (track A) (postscript)
• The track layout (track B) (postscript)
• The track lengths (postscript)
• Track layout data (usable for your train tracker/project)

Other Resources

• GCC, the GNU Compiler Collection.
• ELF Specification (postscript), text transcription, the Executable and Linkable Format we use for our binaries. See also the short CS452-specific tutorial on ELF.

Neat Stuff

Perhaps you want to read this while waiting for those long compiles...

• A teensy tiny ELF executable
• QNX, a realtime operating system that has its roots in CS452
• ARM for transaction processing
• Next generation ARM processors
• The Go programming language
• ARM software consortium

Problems?

Feeling nostalgic?