The Operating System Internals Course is a “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.

Software Tools

• The training platform is a PC Windows platform running Visual Studio 6, gcc and Symbian's own build tools.

Skills Gained

After completing this training, you 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

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

• 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).