Lecturer: Pao-Ann Hsiung

This course is primarily intended for students interested in learning how embedded software is to be designed efficiently and correctly. A student taking this course will be introduced to embedded systems, fundamentals of hardware design and architecture, different architectures for embedded software, the tools to get you started on embedded software design, the typical pitfalls of embedded software design and how to avoid them, real-time and embedded operating systems, how embedded software is to be designed in an RTOS-based system, and how embedded software is to be debugged.

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Textbooks

1. An Embedded Software Primer, David E. Simon, Addison Wesley, ISBN:020161569X, 1999.
2. Programming Embedded Systems with C and GNU Development Tools, 2nd Edition, Michael Barr and Anthony Massa, O'Reilly Media Inc, 2006.

• Embedded System Case Studies
• Introduction to Embedded Systems
• ARM Processor Architecture
• ARM Software Development
• ARM Instruction Sets
• Getting Started with Embedded Software Development (Tools, Packages, Platforms, etc.)
• Interrupts (ISR, IVT, pitfalls, etc.)
• Software Architecture (4 types of common architectures)
• Peripherals (drivers)
• Embedded Operating Systems
• Real-Time Operating Systems
• Java: Concurrency, Pitfalls, and Wireless Applications

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