Embedded Systems 2

An advanced course on embedded systems with an emphasis on the hardware interfacing aspects of microcontrollers. Practical issues are considered, including multilayer printed circuit board design, CMOS interfacing, signal integrity, power supply decoupling, memory considerations, and peripheral operation and programming. The course is project-based where students have to design, assemble, and program a microcontroller-based system using multilayer printed circuit boards.

15 points

ENCE361

ENEL429

Embedded Software and Advanced Computing

This course combines software engineering practice for embedded systems with advanced computer architectures and memory systems. The first part considers real-time operating systems, semaphores, scheduling, concurrency, design patterns, and testing. The second part considers topics on high-performance computing, including pipelining, out of order execution, cache-memory systems, virtual memory systems, profiling, and optimisation.

15 points

ENCE361

ENCE463, ENCE462, ENEL428, ENEL429