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Hey Texas teams - please stop by our presentation in room 230, 5PM on Wednesday the 23rd. The topic is "Real-Time Software in FRC Robotics".

Topics include:

- Hard/soft real-time - temporal restraints, engineering methods etc
- Real time operating systems - basic properties, IRQ and scheduling latency, what is a task?
- Synchronization & Mutual Exclusion - semaphores, messages and delays
- What is running on the robot? - BSP, OS, WPI & multi-tasking applications
- Standard Practices - avoiding dynamic allocation, C++ dos and donts, formatted output, init then loop, resource reclamation, state machines
- Analysis - simplified RMA equations, looking at DS message task, multiple PID classes and a drive task
- WPI templates - Basic, Command-based, Robot Builder, custom methods - Q&A

We do expensive week-long corporate training on these subjects (using VxWorks and Linux) - drop by and get a quick taste for free!