[Moved] Final Year Project - RTOS - Brainstorm

Hi folks,

I am due to do my final year project at University next academic year (2012/2013), although I am in my third year at the moment I am studying part time and therefore wont be doing my project for another year =(

Basically over the past two years I have gained a ton of industrial experience using the PIC18 series and in C programming, and am thinking about submitting an operating system for the processor for my final year project.
I have actually already started writing the operating system and it is coming along nicely, by the time that I have to officially start the project (one year from now) it should be nearing completion, allowing me to simply finish it off and work on documentation for the following year.

The problem is that its all well and good designing an operating system that can preempt and multi-task but it doesnt look very good to an examiner if I can just say what it is capable of without being able to demonstrate its abilities in a real world application, thats where you guys come in!

I am looking for an application for the system that can show off its multi-tasking and possibly real time abilities, I have no problems with writing some program tasks / designing hardware to do this, if anyone has any ideas then I would very much like to hear them.

Many thanks,

Pheetuz.

There are several OS already,
the first question is what's unique in your OS? That's what you have to show case.
What are problems ur planning to address with ur OS than other existing OS does not do.

There should a value add everyone should see with your OS to appreciate it. Think in that direction........

A little off topic, but what I've also learned from my final year project is that you'll also be judged fairly heavily from people who don't have expertise in your area. For example, we had a bunch of industry people come in to our presentations and gave us ratings for an IEEE competition.

So as mentioned, make sure you're able to explain your project, and the benefits (eg: optimized for 16 bit processors) of it in a simplistic manner with plenty of diagrams and analogies.

Thanks for your nice information.