This course is all about practical programming and problem-solving! After completing this course, you will have the knowledge to plan and set up a real-time system both on paper and in practice. The course centres around the problem of achieving timing correctness in embedded systems, which means guaranteeing that the system reacts within the real-time requirements. Examples of such systems include airbags, emergency brakes, avionics, and also multimedia systems like video playback and QoS in web servers. The course teaches how to plan real-time systems, in theory, using established mathematical proofs and how to implement them in practice by using the most common scheduling methods. We also learn how to program the system in the C language using the FreeRTOS real-time kernel. Finally, we have a look at the future of real-time systems, namely multi-core real-time systems! This course focuses on the learn-by-doing approach with many examples and real-world programming assignments. We have 5 modules, each with a gentle, graded quiz at the end and one peer-reviewed programming assignment. In case you have no experience with C programming, please check out a practical course like: https://www.coursera.org/learn/arduino-platform The course is actually quite fun! -Simon Holmbacka / Åbo Akademi University Ideate. Innovate. Iterate with 28Digital
More Tutorial for Programming should have been given. Otherwise, the course was very nice and informative.
Concepts of Real Time Systems explained nicely.Though FreeRTOS software needs to be explained in little depth.
Where is my certificate? I cannot see my certificate for this course, I have completed it
I feel having in depth analysis on various scheduling algorithms would be helpful. I have learnt many things from this course.
The course was very informative and what I was exactly looking for. The Peer graded assignments were also well curated.
Great class covers a lot of real time systems and scheduling using the SimSo, and FreeRtos tools
Real-Time systems are very demanded nowadays. Excellent course to review some aspects in this field or to learn everything from the beginning.
Good mixture of theoretical and practical applications. Could use access to course slides, and maybe a larger practical assignment.
Good course and good lecturer, best course ever took in this platform, the teacher is really good, the modules are good design and provides examples and meaningful exercises.
It was good amount of leaning new things related to RTOS. This course gives you knowledge to design and choose the RTOS based on your requirement of the project.
Some details are not updated, but the content and practice exercises are very informative.
Great course, sometimes hard to follow for newbies. Some instructions are a bit ambiguous or unclear.
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That course is really helpful for intermediate embedded systems students who already know about microcontrollers but wants to take his skills to the next level. I really recommend such a course!
Real-Time systems are very demanded nowadays. Excellent course to review some aspects in this field or to learn everything from the beginning.
I feel having in depth analysis on various scheduling algorithms would be helpful. I have learnt many things from this course.
Great course, I strongly recommend it for those who want to start learning about Real Time Systems for embedded electronics
great course and contents but It needs more practical examples with embedded systems
Thrilled to see a course on this fairly obscure, but essential topic. Thank you!
I enjoyed this course a lot! It gives a good introduction to the topic of real time systems, the lessons are well organized and you don't need to be a computer science expert to learn and understand the material taught in the course. The course not only teaches theory but gives you practical guidelines and very useful examples/assignments to illustrate how the theory is used in practice to solve typical problems and design real time systems , which is the feature I liked most about this course. This "hands-on" approach is very useful to the practitioner, with some inexpensive and simple hardware at your disposal the open-source software tools introduced in the course can get you quite far in designing your own real time system! Needless to say, no course is perfect and there are always things that can be improved. For example, the wording of the assignments and quizzes in this course is in dire need of an update/edit.
The content is really very rich but the problem is that it is not consistent in terms of quizzes with assignments and videos.
I think that being a peer graded assignment, it takes a lot of time to get a grade.
The course feels pretty shallow and it ignores all the interesting stuff like proofs. There is no written material available, so if you can't follow the lectures, poor you. Quizzes aren't very well formulated and sometimes the correct answer is more of a matter of opinion rather than a hard fact. Evaluation seems to be based solely on peer review and there are no model solutions available, so the points you'll get may vary depending on how your peers understood the assignment and if they were interested in the review process at all.
My overall feeling is that nothing was quite challenging on the course, and I didn't learn much more than what I could have learnt by reading a few paragraphs per topic from Wikipedia. I also felt that the programming assignments were quite disjoint from the core, tough I don't feel like I understand the core better than before the course because none of the assignments made me think why something works, rather than that we just mechanically reproduced the examples shown in the lectures.
low quality course, it never talk in core of real time systems.
it takes it from a mathematical prospective which made me confused and not interested in completing this course
Abandoned course, complete waste of time. Just read free "Mastering the FreeRTOS Real Time Kernel" book instead.
Very basic and outdated with no relation on secure embedded systems development.
It is not a beginner level course. Very good theory. Tutorials on FreeRTOS would have been helpful for those who have not used any RTOS api before. Assignments are good but more advanced questions would have been helpful to get a better grasp on RTOS. Request you to provide advance level course. Overall very good material and teaching. Thanks a lot.
awsome job!
i love the course the quiz and the assignment,
the teacher try his best to help us understand rtos.
maybe he can give some useful link about rtos theory ,like how to calculate URM ,U ,frame, but it is still worth to try.
in brief , it is almost perfect, hope Simon Holmbacka will give us more and more class like this one .
The course absolutely covers in detail all the subjects mentioned in the syllabus. The assignments are well-designed and good for an introductory course in real-time systems. The lecturer and all the mentors are doing an amazing job supporting the course . If only there were further courses to advance in this subject !
This is an excellent. Most of us know Operating System very well. But when we add "Realtime" to it then it turns out we have just some general idea about it. This course lets us gain deep insight into Realtime system and let's us know what to expect from a real time system.
Interesting introductory course and easily digestible. Unfortunately I couldn't submit quizzes and programming assignments as I haven't purchased the course. Although I am pretty sure it will be an amazing experience for those who are interested in realtime systems.
I would highly recommend this course to anyone looking to expand their knowledge and skills in "Development of Real-Time Systems". It was an excellent investment of my time and money, and I am confident that the skills I learned will serve me well in the future.
It's one of the best courses I had. The most important thing is that possibility of illustrating the course theoretical concepts with real examples using a well-known OS such as FreeRTOS. Thanks Mr. Holmbacka and all the team.
Very Good Course which starts from basics of real time systems and gives a flavor of complexities involved in the development of real time systems. Excellent for start Real time systems Development journey...