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ECE-4550: Real-Time Systems

Description: Theory, algorithmic and protocol concepts, mechanisms, and implementations of real-time computer systems. Introduction to real-time systems, real-time scheduling, real-time synchronization, real-time operating system kernels, and real-time resource management algorithms (e.g., scheduling, synchronization), their implementations in production operating system kernels, experimental studies of those implementations, and real-time application development.

Pathways: N/A

Course Hours: 3 credits

Prerequisites: CS-3214 or ECE-3574

Required By: CS-5510, ECE-5510, ECE-5564

Corequisites: N/A

Crosslist: N/A

Repeatability: N/A

Sections Taught: 15

Average GPA: 3.33 (A-)

Strict A Rate (No A-) : 51.73%

Average Withdrawal Rate: 0.69%

Binoy Ravindran201649.5%31.9%8.7%1.3%7.7%1.0%3.147
Thidapat Chantem202472.1%15.5%8.0%3.4%0.7%0.3%3.537
Haibo Zeng202349.3%34.4%10.4%3.0%1.5%1.5%3.241

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