The real-time systems course examines technologies used for real-time systems and networks for systems such as multimedia, telecommunication management, and smart manufacturing. Topics include overview of real-time systems, design and implementation issues, system interfacing concepts, real-time scheduling paradigms, resource management issues in uniprocessor and multiprocessor real-time systems, embedded software design constraints, feedback control real-time scheduling, performance management, reliability, software timing and functional validation, supporting applications from real-time wireless sensor networks, distributed real-time systems, and real-time networks.