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Course Outline: Embedded Systems

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

Fall/Winter 2009-2010 Schedule

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 and Grading

Laboratory

Lab information