RTEMS Open Classes

OAR offers open courses on RTEMS on a regular basis. Open courses are may be attended by anyone from any company. In contrast, Closed courses are usually held at a customer's site, tailored to their specific needs, and attendances is limited to employees of that company.

The content of these courses is designed to give those new to real-time programming a big kick start, while providing experienced embedded systems engineers new insight into real-time design patterns and the specifics of RTEMS.

These classes are usually offered in Huntsville AL USA or in Munich Germany. Course dates for the remainder of 2007 will be announced in the near future. To express interest in attending the class in Huntsville or to host a class at your company, please contact Joel Sherrill (joel.sherrill AT OARcorp DOT com). If interested in attending a class or scheduling a company specific class in Europe, please contact Thomas Doerfler (Thomas.Doerfler AT imd-systems DOT de).

The class is 4 days long and includes the following major topics:

Real-Time system design
Semantics of BSP building and maintenance
RTEMS internal architecture and algorithms
Tuning and debugging an RTEMS application
Driver development for clock, timer and RTC drivers
Console drivers for raw and termios mode
Network drivers
BSP structure
Handling of target dependencies
Classic API
RTEMS POSIX API Profile

In addition, numerous RTEMS example programs are demonstrated on different BSPs. The selection of BSPs is tailored to the interests of the attendees. A more detailed outline of the class is available.