VxWorks 7: Real-Time Multitasking (Legacy)

VxWorks tasks are a fundamental building block of many systems. Learn about their life cycle and how to work with them.

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About this course

VxWorks tasks are a fundamental component of any VxWorks system.  In these videos, you will learn about VxWorks tasks: task states, task scheduling, task control blocks, context switches, using taskLib to control VxWorks tasks, differences between application and system tasks, and the requirements of a hard real-time system.

Product: VxWorks 7
Based on: SR540
Applicable for: All VxWorks 7

Learning Objectives

Welcome to the VxWorks Real-Time Multitasking course.

This series of videos will walk you through how tasks run code in the VxWorks multitasking environment. To run code under VxWorks, you need to understand real-time multitasking, and how VxWorks implements it. You must know how to format your application so VxWorks interacts with it correctly. The videos show how to create and control tasks, and how to query the operation of those tasks. These videos apply to all VxWorks systems - however, they only consider a single core CPU. Note that other videos cover the specifics of multi-core CPUs.

After this course you will be able to understand:

    1. What a VxWorks task is
    2. How the kernel uses its task control block
    3. How the task control block links to the code it executes
    4. How the scheduler operates as it executes code
    5. How to create and work with tasks

 

Course Syllabus:

 

About this course

VxWorks tasks are a fundamental component of any VxWorks system.  In these videos, you will learn about VxWorks tasks: task states, task scheduling, task control blocks, context switches, using taskLib to control VxWorks tasks, differences between application and system tasks, and the requirements of a hard real-time system.

Product: VxWorks 7
Based on: SR540
Applicable for: All VxWorks 7

Learning Objectives

Welcome to the VxWorks Real-Time Multitasking course.

This series of videos will walk you through how tasks run code in the VxWorks multitasking environment. To run code under VxWorks, you need to understand real-time multitasking, and how VxWorks implements it. You must know how to format your application so VxWorks interacts with it correctly. The videos show how to create and control tasks, and how to query the operation of those tasks. These videos apply to all VxWorks systems - however, they only consider a single core CPU. Note that other videos cover the specifics of multi-core CPUs.

After this course you will be able to understand:

    1. What a VxWorks task is
    2. How the kernel uses its task control block
    3. How the task control block links to the code it executes
    4. How the scheduler operates as it executes code
    5. How to create and work with tasks

 

Course Syllabus: