Undertake real-time software solution development

This standard covers the competences needed to undertake real-time software solution development. It covers the principles of real-time software solutions design, implementation, testing and deployment. It incorporates how to create the desired functionality and real-time data operation of a software system. This includes programming, communication and synchronisation.

Your underpinning knowledge and understanding of the principles of real-time software development will enable you to undertake programming tasks including for example; scheduling, asynchronous events, real-time threads, asynchronous transfer of control and resource control.

This type of activity is likely to be undertaken by someone whose work role involves delivering real-time software solutions and the development of associated tools and methods. This includes people working as Real-Time Software Developers, Real-Time Programmers, Real-Time Data Engineers, Embedded Systems Software Engineers etc. You will likely work within a team of developers and in a sector or organisation that works with real-time data, such as real-time financial trading, building control, transport and logistics, manufacturing processes, chemical processing, health monitoring systems or on-line gaming.

1. the design parameters in which real-time software system designers operate
2. the requirements placed on real-time systems
3. the essential features and functionality developed in real-time systems to achieve real-time operation
4. the behaviour, major states and characteristics of real-time systems
5. the implementation of real-time software on single processor systems, including interrupts, real-time clock, pre-emption and time-slicing
6. the main features of high-level languages used for programming real-time systems and how to apply these
7. models of temporal and logical control in real-time systems
8. software architecture design patterns used in the development of  real-time systems
9. the principles of scheduling and timing analysis used in the design of real-time software systems
10. the application of fixed priority pre-emptive scheduling (FPPS) and earliest-deadline first (EDF) scheduling approaches for real-time systems
11. the industry standard design approaches for modular real-time software development
12. the application of real-time modelling techniques
13. real-time scheduling methods and how to apply them
14. software testing and verification techniques for real time software and how to apply them