Real-Time Mission-Critical Systems Design

This course can also be taken for academic credit as ECEA 5317, part of CU Boulder’s Master of Science in Electrical Engineering degree. Upon completion of this course the learner will know the difference between systems you can bet your life on (mission critical) and those which provide predictable response and quality of service (reliable). This will be achieved not only by study of design methods and patterns for mission critical systems, but also through implementation of soft real-time sy

• Use SECDED codes for ECC memory
• Explain flash file system functions, wear leveling, and write amplification
• Differentiate high availability and high reliability characteristics
• Design redundant hardware with cross-strapping and recovery

• Basic knowledge of real-time systems programming