{"id":719,"date":"2019-09-26T15:13:01","date_gmt":"2019-09-26T15:13:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/embedded-systems\/?page_id=719"},"modified":"2019-10-10T09:01:01","modified_gmt":"2019-10-10T09:01:01","slug":"level-5-embedded-and-real-time-systems","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/embedded-systems\/microcontrollers\/mbed-os-2\/courses\/level-5-embedded-and-real-time-systems\/","title":{"rendered":"Level 5 – Embedded and Real Time Systems"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Embedded and Real-Time Systems<\/b><\/h1>\n

(Practical course materials for level 5)<\/h2>\n

Dr Nicholas J Outram, University of Plymouth<\/i><\/p>\n

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In level 5 (stage-2 of undergraduate studies), we begin to address a problem you may have encountered: how to read and update multiple devices in real-time. In many ways, this is the core role of a microcontroller. Just knowing the syntax of a language, the registers of a device or the APIs of a framework such as Mbed-os is not usually enough. You also need to know how to approach, what might be generally called software engineering<\/em>. The good news is that most problems have well tried and tested solutions which can be adapted and reused. One of the aims of this section is to introduce you to two of these:<\/p>\n