Module 6 of 8

RTOS & Embedded Systems

Real-time scheduling, FreeRTOS and Zephyr primitives, memory-constrained programming, deterministic I/O, and certification-aware coding.

4 lessons

~30 hours

190 XP

Create tasks with priorities, use queues, semaphores, mutexes, and stream buffers, and understand scheduler behaviour and priority inversion.

Use Zephyr threads, kernel objects, device driver model, logging, shell, and build system (west/CMake) for multi-board projects.

Apply MISRA C rules, use static analysis (Cppcheck, MISRA checkers), design for deterministic memory and time, and document safety cases.

Write register-level drivers for common peripherals, handle interrupts, use DMA for throughput, and build a hardware abstraction layer.