C Programming for Real Time Developers

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Introduction to Real-Time Systems
 Characteristics and demands of real-time software development
Introduction to C Programming
 Structure of a C program
 The C compilation process
Types and Operators
 C base types
 Precedence & associativity
 Arithmetic operations
Control Flow
 Logical expressions and operations
 Decision Making
 Loops
Pointers
 Pointer basics
Bit Manipulation & Hardware Access
 Accessing hardware with pointers
 Manipulating information at the bit level
 General Purpose IO (GPIO)
Functions
 The Function as a logical program unit
 How parameters are passed
 Memory segments
Arrays, Pointers and Strings
 Arrays as circular buffers
 Relationship between pointers & arrays
 Pointer arithmetic
 C string handling

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Device Interaction & Synchronization
 Polling devices
 Serial peripheral programming
Structures and Unions
 Structures
 Big & Little Endian
 Unions
 Using structures to access I/O devices
 Bit-field structures
Interrupts
 Internal & External interrupt control
 Nested Interrupts
 Priorities & Masks
 Software Interrupts
Dynamic Memory Management
 Malloc and free
 Issues (leaks, fragmentation, etc.)
Program Structure
 Definitions and declarations;
 Header files
 Scope and lifetime
The C Pre-Processor
 Macros
 Conditional Compilation
Type safety
 Conversions, promotions, truncation
Portability
 Considerations between different compilers & platforms.
Concurrency and multi-tasking
 Scheduling strategies
 Context switching
 Function pointers
 Task synchronisation and communication
 MMU and memory protection
 Concurrency and libraries
 Using a RTOS
The Standard C Library
Target Specific Considerations
 Language features affecting portability
 Non-standard C language features
 Assembly language interfacing
 What happens at power-on?
 Initialising the C runtime