Outline:

1. Welcome!
2. What is a real-time system?
   • defining “real time”
   • features of a real-time system
   • basic concepts
     • tasks and schedules
     • constraints: precedence, shared resources
3. Scheduling anomalies
4. CS Bits & Bytes this week: work I presented last November!

Reading assignment (to be completed by the next class):

Introduction and background (good to skim now, and read carefully later):

• Buttazzo sections 1.1–1.2 (pp. 1–10)
• Buttazzo sections 2.1–2.2 (pp. 19–28)

What you should understand after today:

• Buttazzo section 2.4 (pp. 35–42)