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Subject: HW #1 L and S arrays
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Hi,

Don't get too hung up on the S and L arrays in HW #1 - do try and poplulate
them with intermediate results and use them for your own debugging.  I think
that you will find the intermediate results to be interesting and helpful.

The point is that the intermediate results can help you pinpoint scheduling
problems.

For example, the feasibility of the whole set of tasks can be viewed 
intermediately as the feasibility of a sub-set of the same tasks.  The question
that is interesting, is what task breaks the bank and why?  Intermediate
results can help you see this more clearly.  Was it interference from
high frequency tasks or was it simply large CPU demands??  Or both??

I won't be examining your L and S arrays.  Size them for a reasonable number
of tasks (at least 20) and do look at them yourself to see if they make 
sense!

Please turn in any test cases and test code you write to evaluate your code.
Show me that you verified that your algorithms work and understood them!

Thanks!

Sam

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 University of Colorado Boulder, Electrical and Computer Engineering

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Subject: HW #2 has been posted on the WWW
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Hi,

You will have 3 weeks to complete HW #2.  It requires use of VxWorks and
Tornado tools including Windview.

While the HW looks fairly easy, make sure you start on it early because it
will take some time.

Sam

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 Sam Siewert, Ph.D. -- Adjunct Faculty, Embedded Systems Cert. Program

 University of Colorado Boulder, Electrical and Computer Engineering

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