48450 Operating Systems

Assignment 1:

An Introduction to Cross-Development 

Spring Semester 2005

Due date: 9th September, 2005

Aim:

To become familiarised with the cross-development facilities 
available from the remotely accessible embedded systems laboratory 
and to evaluate the development environment by writing a program 
with console output.

Submission Details:

Details regarding the submission procedure will be made available 
on UTSOnline Announcements closer to the due date, but you should 
include in your submission …

Relevant personal reflections on the exercises including concepts 
that you have learned, technical issues that you have encountered, 
additional information you had to obtain to broaden your 
understanding. 1-2 pages should be sufficient.        

Programming task source code, binaries, makefile and console output. 
Comments should be included where appropriate in the source and 
makefile.
        
Answers to the follow-up questions (your answers to the follow-up 
questions might be submitted using an online facility – further 
details will be announced later).
        
A summary definitive statement about the level of functionality 
of the code you’ve produced for the Programming Task. For example, 
“My program correctly generates two processes and works with respect 
to carrying out the searching operation that it’s supposed to do, 
but doesn’t terminate properly some times …”.

Assessment Details:

This assignment is to be completed on an individual basis.