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Embedded Systems

Lecturers: Björn Franke and Michael O'Boyle

Lectures are scheduled in Semester 2 at the following times in Forrest Hill, D.01:

                        Monday  12.10 - 13.00
                        Thursday  12.10 - 13.00

Lecture Notes

• Lecture 1 - Introduction
• Lecture 2 - Interfacing with the Environment
• Lecture 3 - Models of Computation
• Lecture 4 - Statecharts and Coursework
• Lecture 5 - Imperative Programming Languages
• Lecture 6 - Hardware
• Lecture 7 - Scheduling
• Lecture 8 - Guest lectures (Imagination Technologies)
• Lecture 9 - Reliability and Fault Tolerance
• Lecture 10 - Scheduling with Priorities
• Lecture 11 - Coursework
• Lecture 12 - Embedded Operating Systems
• Lecture 13 - Worst-Case Execution Time
• Lecture 14 - Mapping
• Lecture 15 - HW and SW Optimisations
• Lecture 16 - Embedded Compiler Optimisation

Coursework:

Part 1 of coursework has been handed out on Thursday, January 24, and the deadline is 16:00 on Friday, February 15. And here's a coursework FAQ.
Part 2 of coursework has been handed out on Thursday, February 28, and the final deadline is 16:00 on Friday, March 22.

• Essential Code Archive for Part 2
• MQX User Guide
• RTCS User Guide
• K70 Reference Manual

References:

• Peter Marwedel, Embedded System Design
• Alan Shaw, Real-Time Systems and Software, John Wiley \& Sons, Inc. 2001.
• Alan Burns & Andy Wellings, Real-Time Systems \& Programming Languages, Third Edition, Addison Wesley, 2001.
• The Esterel website

Björn Franke, bfranke@inf.ed.ac.uk, IF 1.04