VxWorks 7 Cert Edition Essentials
The Wind River® VxWorks® 7 Cert Edition Essentials course provides engineers with a fast, cost-effective way to acquire the skills necessary to develop safety-critical applications. The course covers VxWorks 7 Cert Edition, as well as the Wind River Workbench 4 development suite. Typical use cases in application development and debugging are explored and a deployment workflow for a certification objective is indicated.
Course Description
The Wind River® VxWorks® 7 Cert Edition Essentials course provides engineers with a fast, cost-effective way to acquire the skills necessary to develop safety-critical applications. The course covers VxWorks 7 Cert Edition, as well as the Wind River Workbench 4 development suite. Typical use cases in application development and debugging are explored and a deployment workflow for a certification objective is indicated.
Course Results
After this course, participants will be able to perform the following:
- Understand VxWorks 7 Cert Edition features and the DO-178C certification standard challenges
- Accelerate the development and configuration of DO-178C-compliant safety-critical systems using Workbench 4
- Develop, debug, build, and test safety-critical applications with the VxWorks 7 Cert Edition real-time operating system (RTOS)
Products Supported
- Wind River® VxWorks 7 Cert Edition
- Wind River® Workbench 4
- Wind River® Simics 6 (as simulated targets for labs)
Course Format
- This four-day expert-led course consists of lectures and lab sessions.
- Attendees use Wind River VxWorks 7 Cert Edition, Wind River Workbench 4, and Wind River Simics 6 to gain experience with the topics presented.
- Participants examine and exercise simulated target systems in hands-on labs.
- Participants receive individual guidance from an expert engineer who has extensive experience with Wind River technologies.
Audience
- Application developers creating DO-178C standard-based safety-critical applications
- Engineers who need to develop applications using the features of the VxWorks 7 Cert Edition RTOS
Syllabus
Day 1
GETTING STARTED WITH VXWORKS 7 CERT EDITION
- Product overview
- Workbench 4 features
- VxWorks 7 features
- VxWorks 7 Cert Edition considerations
VXWORKS CERT TARGETS AND CONNECTIONS
- Hardware target configuration
- Booting the hardware target
- Workbench tools architecture
- Configuring and connecting the TCF server
- VxWorks Simulator — a high-level simulator
- Simics — a true hardware simulation
- LAB: Getting Started with VxWorks 7 Cert Edition
MANAGING VXWORKS CERT PROJECTS IN WORKBENCH
- Introduction to projects and workspaces
- VxWorks 7 installation directory structure
- VxWorks 7 layers and package management
- The wrtool utility
- VxWorks source build projects
- VxWorks image projects
- Configuring the kernel
- ROMFS
- Configuring application projects
- Importing and exporting
- Building projects
- LAB: Managing VxWorks Cert Projects
VXWORKS CERT KERNEL SHELL
- Introduction to the kernel shell
- Kernel shell configuration
- Kernel shell commands and help
- Kernel shell usage
- Command-line history and editing
- Object module loader
- LAB: Using the VxWorks Cert Kernel Shell with a Non-Cert
Configuration
Day 2
DEBUGGING VXWORKS CERT IN WORKBENCH
- Debugger overview
- Application mode and stop mode debugger
- Setting breakpoints
- Downloading code
- Attaching to running tasks
- Attaching to a system
- LAB: Debugging VxWorks 7 Cert with Workbench and a Non-
Cert Configuration - LAB: Debugging VxWorks 7 Cert in Stop Mode with a Non-
Cert Configuration
VXWORKS CERT REAL-TIME MULTITASKING
- Introduction to real-time requirements
- Task states in VxWorks
- Context switching
- Spawning new tasks
- Task control routines
- Task information
- Alternative POSIX support
- System tasks
- LAB: Working with VxWorks Cert Tasks
VXWORKS CERT EVENTS
- VxWorks Cert events overview
- Task event register
- Event handling in VxWorks
- Receiving events
- Sending events
- Other eventLib routines
- Usage caveats
- LAB: Working with VxWorks Cert Events
VXWORKS CERT SEMAPHORES
- Overview of semaphore types
- Synchronization issues
- Binary and counting semaphores
- VxWorks Cert events and semaphores
- Mutual exclusion issues
- Mutex semaphores
- Deletion and inversion safe mutex semaphores
- Other preemption locks for tasks and ISRs
- LAB: Using VxWorks Cert Semaphores
Day 3
VXWORKS CERT INTER-TASK COMMUNICATION
- Overview of communication methods
- Shared memory and data structures
- Message queues
- Creating, sending, and receiving messages
- Message queue events
- Pipes in non-Cert VxWorks
- LAB: Communicating between VxWorks Cert Tasks
VXWORKS CERT REAL-TIME PROCESSES
- Overview of the RTP model
- Use of MMU
- Memory allocation and tasks
- VxWorks component support for RTPs
- RTP execution and termination
- Debugging RTPs in a non-Cert configuration
- Public and private objects
- Design considerations
INTRODUCTION TO VXWORKS CERT SYMMETRIC
MULTIPROCESSING
- VxWorks Cert SMP configuration
- VxWorks Cert SMP programming
- VxWorks Cert SMP scheduler
VXWORKS CERT RTP ACCESS CONTROL
- Overview
- RTP time partition scheduling
- Access control for public objects, directories, and files
- Access control for memory resources
- Access control for system calls
- LAB: Building an RTP Access Control System
VXWORKS CERT MEMORY
- Introduction
- Physical memory layout
- Virtual memory layout
- Heap memory allocation
- Virtual memory allocation
- Examining memory with a non-Cert kernel shell
- LAB: Managing VxWorks Cert Memory
Day 4
VXWORKS CERT EXCEPTIONS, INTERRUPTS, AND
TIMERS
- Exception handling overview
- Interrupt service routine basics
- Interrupt handling example
- ISR guidelines
- Timing and the system clock
- Watchdog timers
- LAB: Using VxWorks Cert Watchdog Timers
VXWORKS CERT ERROR DETECTION AND
REPORTING
- ED&R overview
- Error reporting capabilities in non-Cert VxWorks
- Error reporting framework in non-Cert VxWorks
- Handling fatal errors
- Persistent memory manager in non-Cert VxWorks
- Configuring ED&R in the non-Cert kernel
- Error records and logs in non-Cert VxWorks
- LAB: Using VxWorks Cert Error Detection and Reporting
SYSTEM VIEWER IN VXWORKS CERT
- System Viewer overview
- Configuring System Viewer with a non-Cert VxWorks
- Collecting and displaying event data
- User-defined events
- Additional analysis views
- LAB: Using System Viewer with a Non-Cert Configuration
ANALYSIS TOOLS IN VXWORKS CERT
- Overview
- System Browser in a non-Cert VxWorks
- CPU Profiler in a non-Cert VxWorks
- LAB: Using VxWorks Analysis Tools with a Non-Cert
Configuration
VXWORKS 7 CERTIFICATION
- Introduction to DO-178
- Background and definitions
- DO-178 and software safety
- DO-178 processes and objectives
- Software verification
- VxWorks 7 Cert Edition considerations
- LAB: Deploying a VxWorks Cert System
Prerequisites
Prerequisite Skills
- One year of C programming
- Basic understanding of operating systems and debugging techniques
- User-level familiarity with the host operating system on which VxWorks 7 Cert Edition will be installed
- Basic understanding of DO-178B/C concepts
Prerequisite Courses
- Real-Time Programming for Embedded Systems
Related Courses
- VxWorks 7 Board Support Packages and Device Drivers
- VxWorks 653 3.x Multi-core Edition Essentials
- Helix Platform Cert Edition Essentials
COURSE DETAILS SUMMARY
- Duration: 4 Days
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- Format: Instructor-led lectures and hands-on lab sessions; instructor-led Live
Remote delivery available - Type: Instructor-led
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