System Programming

Seminar Target
You get a comprehensive insight into the options of driver- and application development in an embedded Linux project.

Target Group/Precognition
Developers without and resp. with little Unix/Linux and C/C++ knowledge.

Seminar Content:

• Overview of GNU / Linux
• GCC Toolchain, GDB debugger
• GPL and other Licenses
• System call interface
• Process management: processes, scheduler and priorities
• Soft-Real-Time processes
• Threads and their implementations
• IPC-Inter Process Communication: pipes, messages queues, shared memory, semaphores and signals
• Network programming using BSD sockets: TCP/IP and UDP/IP server and clients
• Useful system libraries
• Basics of the Linux kernel: kernel drivers and modules, kernel device model, interrupt handling, tasklets, configuration and compilation of the kernel
• Basics of device driver development

Demonstrations and Exercises

• Thread programming
• Network programming (TCP and UDP Server/client examples)
• IPC programming
• Character driver examples (data exchange with applications, integration into the kernel device model, integration into sysfs, kernel threads, kernel timer)

Constancy
Three days, 09:00h - 17:00h (last day 09:00h - 16:00h)

Participants
min. 3, max. 8 participants