This 2-day training class uses hands-on exercises combined with instruction to illustrate the concepts of the µC/OS-II real-time operating system and how it is applied in embedded application development, requiring hard real-time performance. This class is architected for everyone interested in or tasked with developing an embedded software application based on Micrium's µC/OS-II real-time operating system.

Goals

After completing this training class, participants have a good understanding of the µC/OS-II kernel and its services, gained skills in using the operating system and can use it effectively in their own embedded application development projects. Specifically, they are able to:

• Define what an operating system kernel is.
• Name 6 services offered by the µC/OS-II kernel.
• Describe different scheduling concepts and name those used by the µC/OS-II kernel.
• Explain what a context switch is and when µC/OS-II uses this.
• Correctly initialize µC/OS-II and create and manage tasks.
• Obtain and evaluate run-time kernel statistics, including stack usage and CPU load.
• Use µC/OS-II to implement a power saving strategy.
• Correctly handle interrupts and shared resources.
• Use messages and queues for task communication.
• Use event flags for task synchronization purposes.
• Limit priority inversion and prevent deadlocks.

The class consists of 8 group meetings with a length of approximately 2 hours each. This brings the total study load to 16 hours.

Pricing and registration

The class is priced at $1995 per person and includes lunch and beverages during the training sessions. Registrations are made by a 10% online prepayment of the price. The remaining amount will be invoiced afterwards. Registrations can be cancelled with refund of the prepayment up to 2 weeks prior to the starting date.

When registering before June 30th 2008, you will receive a FREE Luminary Micro ARM Cortex-M3 evaluation system during the training class.