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CSE 237B Fall 2009 Tasks and Task Scheduling for Real Time Rajesh Gupta Computer Science and Engineering University of California, San Diego. Overview The goal of task modeling and management is to understand the requirements of embedded software for application programming as well as for the operating system needs. • Task management • Task interaction • Embedded Software as Tasks – Static and Dynamic Aspects of Task scheduling • Memory Management: Stack and Heap • Real-time kernels • Commercial and research real-time operating systems 2 Tasks • An embedded system typically has many activities (or tasks) occurring in parallel. • A task represents an activity in the system. • Historically, one task represents one sequential thread of execution; – however, multithreading allows multiple threads of control in the same task. – We will assume a single thread of control. • The principles of concurrency are fundamental regardless of the granularity of the concurrent units (processes, tasks, or threads). – We will examine concurrency in terms of tasks. 3 Concurrency • Concurrent tasking means structuring a system into concurrent tasks. • Advantages of concurrent tasking – a natural model for many real-time applications. – results in a separation of concerns of what each task does from when it does it. This usually makes the system easier to understand, manage, and construct. – can result in an overall reduction in system execution time by overlapping executions of independent tasks.