1. Final Year Project Electronic & Computer Engineering Design and Realisation of Experiments for an embedded Linux Laboratory Class. Student: Andrew Sweeney Supervisor: Peter Corcoran

2. Linux Kernel and RTAI Ubuntu and Advantages Basic Installation Vanilla kernel 2.6.17.10 Latest stable version of RTAI

3. Add-ons Hardware Abstraction Layer patch Adeos patch MESA Library EFLTK Package

4. Verify RTAI Funtionality Testsuite Latency Test Pre-empt Test Switches Test

5. Experiments Kernel Modules C Language Loadable Objects Define symbols and include headers

6. Pure Periodic Scheduling of a Single Task Task: Turn speaker on/off Period converted to internal counts Structure containing info on the task Method of the task Cleanup function at the end of module

7. Pure Periodic Scheduling of Two Tasks Tasks: Toggle speaker on/off and vary frequency of the toggling Base period to be used Both tasks use a shared variable Priorities placed on tasks

8. Variable Periodic Scheduling of a Single Task Task: Toggle speaker port after alternating periods of time Task is told to sleep instead of wait Delay is calculated for the period during the task function

9. FIFO Communication between RTL and Linux Data queue for sharing data between real- time tasks & user-level applications Real-time Task: Create two FIFO queues Periodic Task: Toggle speaker port and increment heartbeat

10. Aims and Goals Have fully functioning RTAI installed on desktop and run basic test program Work through real-time experiments on included in presentation Document procedures for student and supervisor fully for working experiments Work into the more advanced procedures and document all progress

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