============ Course Outline: Embedded Systems ============

CSE 3215 Winter 2010
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
York University,  Toronto, Ontario




[[https://w2prod.sis.yorku.ca/Apps/WebObjects/cdm.woa/34/wo/RBHo4bO8mxAEcxUbcf11l0/3.1.8.17|Fall/Winter 2009-2010 Schedule]]



====== Contact ======

[[contact | Instructor: R. Allison; TA: Cyrus Minwalla]]

====== Overview ======

Embedded systems are an important area of computer engineering and a large and growing market for computing technology. The trends to mobile computing, ubiquitous computing, and pervasive computing combined with ever increasing computational power and powerful new paradigms in hardware design are changing embedded systems design. In this course we consider the design of embedded hardware and software under pressures and constraints including performance, cost, size, time to market, power, ...

====== Prerequisites ======


The departmental prerequisites for this course are general pre-requisites and CSE3201.04 (i.e. the latest version of the course, taught using Verilog and with a hardware lab component). Students should have a good understanding of digital and analogue electronics and computer organisation. You should also be familiar with assembly programming (C programming will be very helpful).

====== Topics (tentative) ======

^  Week  ^  Dates  ^  Lecture  ^  Lab  ^
| 1  | Jan 5, 7 | Introduction  | No lab  |
| 2  | Jan 12, 14  | Microcontrollers, 68HCS12 architecture and instruction set | Lab 0 (Safety Issues, Introduction to Facilities and Tutorial  |
| 3  | Jan 19, 21  | Peripherals  | Lab 1  |
| 4  | Jan 26, 28  | Interrupts  | Lab 2  |
| 5  | Feb 2, 4 | Peripherals & Interrupts  | Lab 3  |
| 6  | Feb 9, 11   | Memory and Busses   | Lab 3 con't   |
|    | Feb 16, 18  | READING WEEK  | No lab  |
| 7  | Feb 23, 25  | Interfacing  | Lab 4  |
| 8  | Mar 2, 4   | Interfacing  | Lab 4  |
| 9  | Mar 9, 11   | Analogue interfacing  | Lab 5  |
| 10  | Mar 16, 18   | Programmable Logic and Rapid prototyping using FPGAs  |Lab 5 con't  |
| 11  | Mar 23, 25   | Power, High Speed and other design constraints (time permitting)  | Lab 6  |
| 12  | Mar 30, Apr 1   | Power, High Speed and other design constraints (time permitting)  | Lab 6  |
| 13  | Apr 5   | no class  | Lab 6  |

Quizzes will be held during class periods.

====== Evaluation ======

[[grades| Grades and Grading]]




====== Laboratory ======

[[laboratory:start| Lab information]]