VxWorks 6.x and Workbench Essentials
Acquire the skills necessary to develop real-time applications with VxWorks and Wind River® Workbench.
Course Description
The VxWorks® 6.9 and Workbench Essentials training course provides engineers with a fast, cost-effective way to acquire the skills necessary to develop real-time applications with VxWorks and Wind River® Workbench.
Course Results
After this course, participants will be able to perform the following:
- Design and develop real-time applications in kernel and user modes
- Debug, build, and test real-time applications in a target host development environment with Workbench and VxWorks
Products Supported
- VxWorks 6.9 and later
- Wind River Workbench 3.3
- Earlier product releases (topics may vary)
Who Should Attend
- Anyone who will receive Workbench and VxWorks 6.9 within 60 days
- Developers who work with Workbench and VxWorks
- New project members on teams already using Wind River products
- Senior engineers who want to evaluate VxWorks technology
Course Format
- This four-day expert-led course consists of lectures and lab sessions.
- Attendees use VxWorks 6.9 and Wind River Workbench 3.3 to gain experience with the topics presented.
- Participants examine and exercise simulated network topologies in hands-on labs.
- Participants receive individual guidance from an expert engineer who has extensive experience with Wind River technologies.
Syllabus
Day 1
Getting Started
- Product overview
- Workbench 3.x features
- VxWorks 6.x features
VxWorks Targets and Connections
- Hardware target configuration
- Workbench tools architecture
- Configuring and connecting the target server
- Wind River VxWorks Simulator – a high-level simulator
- LAB: Getting started (hardware, Simics, or VxWorks Simulator target)
Managing Projects in Wind River Workbench
- VxWorks image projects
- Kernel configuration
- ROMFS
- Import and export
- Building projects
- LAB: Project management
VxWorks Shells
- Command-line history and editing
- Host shell configuration
- Shell interpreters
- Spawning VxWorks tasks and I/O
- Kernel shell comparison
- LAB: Host shell
Day 2
Debugging in Wind River Workbench
- Debugger overview
- Setting breakpoints
- Task mode vs. system mode debugging
- Downloading code
- Saving debug sessions
- Attaching to running tasks
- LAB: Debugger
Real-Time Multitasking
- Task states in VxWorks
- Context switching
- Spawning new tasks
- Task control routines
- Alternative POSIX support
- System tasks
- LAB: Multitasking
VxWorks Events
- Task event register
- Event handling in VxWorks
- Other eventLib routines
- Usage caveats
- LAB: Events
Day 3
Semaphores
- Synchronization issues
- Binary and counting semaphores
- Mutex semaphores
- Deletion and inversion safe mutex semaphores
- Other preemption locks for tasks and ISRs
- LAB: Semaphores
Inter-task Communication
- Shared memory and data structures
- Message queues
- Creating, sending, and receiving messages
- Message queue events
- Pipes in VxWorks
- LAB: Inter-task communication
Memory
- Memory maps with and without processes
- Memory pools – kernel heap and WDB
- Memory allocation
- Additional memory management routines
- Partition manager
- LAB: Memory
Real-Time Processes (RTPs)
- Use of MMU
- Memory allocation and tasks
- RTP terminology
- VxWorks component support for RTPs
- RTP execution and life cycle
- Debugging RTPs
- Design considerations
- LAB: Real-time processes
Day 4
Exceptions, Interrupts, and Timers
- Exception handling and signals
- Installing signals to handle exceptions
- Watchdog timers
- Polling
- The auxiliary clock
- LAB: Exceptions, interrupts, and timers
Error Detection and Reporting
- Error reporting framework
- Handling fatal errors
- Persistent memory manager
- Error records
- LAB: Error detection and reporting
System Viewer
- Configuring System Viewer
- VxWorks component support
- Logging level selection
- Additional analysis views
- LAB: System Viewer
Prerequisites
Prerequisite Courses
Prerequisite Skills
- One year of C programming
- Basic understanding of operating systems and debugging techniques
Related Courses
- VxWorks 6.x Board Support Package
- VxWorks 6.x Device Drivers
- Multi-core Technologies and Designing for Concurrency
- VxWorks Build and Configuration Use Cases
- VxWorks Intermediate Application Development Use Cases
- VxWorks Application Debugging Use Cases
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COURSE DETAILS SUMMARY
- Duration: 4 Days
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- Format: Lectures and Labs
- Type: Instructor-led
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