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Symbian OS: Internals

Language :	C++
Level :	Advanced
Upcoming Dates & Locations : (next six months)	04/06/2008 (3 days) - London, United Kingdom : £1200 23/07/2008 (3 days) - London, United Kingdom : £1200 22/10/2008 (3 days) - Bangalore, India : £1200

The Operating System Internals Course is a 3 day “hands on” course aimed at advanced developers, driver and base porting engineers. It explores the core techniques used within the Symbian operating system and covers four areas: operating system basics; software organisation and tools, device driver model; and a porting overview. This knowledge will enable the development of advanced applications, system services, device drivers and device ports.

Objective

For participants to gain an operating system perspective on Symbian OS and be able to practically demonstrate their understanding.

Upon completing this course, participants will be able to:

• Explain the key features of the Symbian OS kernel and their impact on user side developers.
• Demonstrate key EKA2 Features using C++ code fragments.
• Use a useful collection of low level Symbian OS tools.
• Develop simple devices drivers and understand the device driver model
• Appreciate the key aspects of Symbian OS base porting

Pre-requisites

The course is designed for engineers with a good understanding of C++ and a reasonable understanding of OO. Previous participation in the Symbian OS Essentials course (or equivalent knowledge) is assumed. Completion of the Symbian OS Application Engines course would be beneficial in some areas (thou completion is not considered essential).

Style

This is a hands-on course consisting of approximately 60% lectures and 40% practical work.

Course outline

• Operating System Basics

  
  Operating System Overview
  Processes Threads and Handles
  Memory Allocation
  Memory Organisation
  Context Switching
  Operating System Services
  Inter Thread/Process Communication
  Client Server – Kernel Side Architecture
  
  

• Code Organisation and Tools

  
  Operating System Organisation
  ROM building
  Debugging
  
  

• Writing Device Drivers

  
  Device Drivers – Basic Concepts
  Device Drivers – Component Details
  Device Drivers – Implementation Details
  Device Drivers – Interrupts, IDFCs & DFCs
  Device Drivers – Data Transfer
  Device Drivers – Platform Security
  Device Drivers – Common Development Issues
  Power Management
  DMA
  
  

• Porting

  
  Hardware Abstraction
  Base Porting
  File Systems

Further Information

If you require further information about this training course, please contact us via the details below:

Kay Ferris Training Business Manager Symbian Ltd 2 - 6 Boundary Row London SE1 8HP UK +44 20 7154 1846 technical.training@symbian.com