An experimental laboratory environment for teaching embedded operating systems

SIGCSE'08 - Proceedings of the 39th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 192-196

  Brylow, Dennis ^a  

^a MARQUETTE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Curriculum; Embedded systems education; Embedded XINU

Indexed keywords

CLASS PROJECTS; COHERENT SEQUENCES; CORE COURSES; EMBEDDED OPERATING SYSTEMS; EMBEDDED SYSTEMS EDUCATION; EMBEDDED XINU; EXPERIMENTAL LABORATORIES; HARDWARE SYSTEMS; LABORATORY ENVIRONMENTS; OPERATING SYSTEMS; OPERATING SYSTEMS COURSES; SYSTEMS LABORATORIES;

COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; COMPUTERS; CURRICULA; EDUCATION COMPUTING; EXPERIMENTS; INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; LABORATORIES; TEACHING;

EMBEDDED SYSTEMS;

EID: 57449083981     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1352135.1352201     Document Type: Conference Paper

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