Embedded Systems

Lecturers: Björn Franke and Ajitha Rajan

Lectures are scheduled in Semester 2 at the following times:

Monday 12.10 - 13.00 (LT1, 7BSQ)
Thursday 12.10 - 13.00 (LT1, 7BSQ)

Lecture Notes

Lecture 1 - Introduction (Björn)
Lecture 2 - Interfacing with the Environment (Ajitha)
Lecture 3 - Models of Computation (Ajitha)
Lecture 4 - Statecharts (Ajitha)
Coursework - Part 1 (Stan)
Lecture 5 - Imperative Programming Languages (Ajitha)
Lecture 6 - Hardware (Ajitha)
Lecture 7 - Scheduling (Ajitha)
Lecture 8 - Reliability and Fault Tolerance (Ajitha)
Lecture 9 - Scheduling with Priorities (Björn)
Lecture 10 - Mapping (Björn)
Lecture 12 - Embedded Operating Systems (Björn)
Additional Material on Real-Time Operating Systems
Coursework - Part 2 (Stan/Björn)
Lecture 13 - Worst-Case Execution Time (Björn)
Lecture 14 - HW and SW Optimisations (Björn)
Lecture 15 - Embedded Compiler Optimisation (Björn)
Lecture 15(a) - Compact Code Generation (Björn)
Lecture 15(b) - Compiling for Automatically Generated Instruction Set Extensions (Björn)

Coursework:

Part 1 of the coursework will be handed out on Monday, January 23, and the deadlines are 18:00 on Friday, February 10, 2017 (for tasks 1-3), and 18:00 on Friday, February 17, 2017 (for task 4). Feedback will be provided on or before 03/03/2017.
Part 2 of the coursework will be handed out on Monday, February 27, and the deadline is 18:00 on Friday, March 24, 2017. Feedback on part 2 will be provided on or before 07/04/2017. Please also look at this additional material.

Support

Students are encouraged to sign up to the Piazza forum for this course.

Labs

This course is accompanied by weekly lab sessions during which a lab demonstrator will be able to provide hands-on support with the setup of the boards used for the coursework. You will also be able to demonstrate your solution before submitting it electronically. Students are expected to attend only one lab session per week:

Embedded Systems Lab/1, Forrest Hill 1.B31, Wednesdays 14:10 - 16:00
Embedded Systems Lab/2 Forrest Hill 1.B31, Fridays 16:10 - 18:00

References and Useful Resources:

Textbooks
- 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.
Useful Resources
- Jonathan W. Valvano and Ramesh Yerraballi. Embedded Software in C for an ARM Cortex M
- Derrick Klotz, Freescale/NXP. C for Embedded Systems Programming
- Dominic Herity. Modern C++ in Embedded Systems
- http://www.learn-c.org/ - A free, interactive C tutorial (nothing to even download). There are some advanced sections as well.
- http://www.cprogramming.com/(C++ stuff here too)
- C Programming for Embedded Microcontrollers by Warwick A. Smith
- How to Become an Embedded Systems Geek by The Embedded Muse.
- Slides from the revision session

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

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