Systems Programming: Why An (Embedded) Operating System?
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Conceived as a series of demos, live-programmed by the :doc:`trainer
</about/myself/index>`, this course gives an understanding of what an
embedded operating system is and what it can do for you. The course
begins with an introduction to operating system fundamentals, then
explores interrupt handling and the transition to threading concepts,
examines the synchronization and communication tools available to
developers (including semaphores, mutexes, message queues). It
finishes with advanced I/O techniques such as polling and event-driven
programming.

The operating system that is used for the demos, :doc:`WhyOS
<why-os/index>`, is a didactic mockup for something that looks much
like Zephyr.

.. topic:: See also

   * :doc:`why-os/index`

Course Structure
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.. toctree::
   :maxdepth: 1
   
   overview/index
   time/index
   interrupt/index
   spinlocks/index
   threads/index
   messagequeue/index
   semaphore/index
   polling/index
   todo

WhyOS
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.. toctree::
   :maxdepth: 1

   why-os/index

AI
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.. toctree::
   :maxdepth: 1

   ai/index