ENGR 11 - Embedded Systems Development

Transfer Status

CSU/UC

Prerequisite

CSCI 20

Unit(s)

3.00

• Lecture: 34.00 Contact hours/68.00 Out of class hours/102.00 Total hours/2.00 Unit(s)
• Lab: 51.00 Contact hours/0.00 Out of class hours/51.00 Total hours/1.00 Unit(s)
• Total: 85.00 Contact hours/68.00 Out of class hours/153.00 Total hours/3.00 Unit(s)

Course Description: This course introduces the principles and methods related to the creation of embedded systems applications at a low level. It covers the utilization of both Assembly Language and C. The topics covered encompass microprocessor architecture fundamentals, instruction set architectures, Assembly language programming, data representations, managing interrupts and execution modes, low-level C programming, as well as the utilization of on-chip and external peripherals.

Upon successful completion of this course, the student should be able to:

1. Describe the main characteristics of Embedded Systems Development
2. Identify and describe modern embedded systems development tools.
3. Write assembly langugage instructions that run on embedded systems hardware, including subroutines, Input/Output (I/O), arithmetic, logic and other basic operations.
4. Write C langugage instructions that run on embedded systems hardware, including subroutines, Input/Output (I/O), arithmetic, logic and other basic operations.
5. Identify and describe basic computer architectures, including processor architecture and the behavior and representation of data types and data structures.

Topic Titles / Suggested Time Topic

Lecture

Lab

1. Class Activities
2. Group Discussions
3. Homework: Students are required to complete two hours of outside-of-class homework for each hour of lecture
4. Instructor Demonstrations
5. Laboratory Experiments
6. Lecture

1. Quizzes
2. Homework
3. Lab Projects
4. Mid-term and final examinations

Reading Assignments

1. Read the chapter in your text on Binary Number Systems. Write a brief description on why computers use base 2 (binary) and its relation to other base systems (8, 10 and 16)
2. Read the chapter about interrupts and draw a simple diagram showing a busy-waiting representation.

Writing Assignments

1. Write an embedded systems program that will change the color of an LED based on external hardware inputs. Be sure to include proper header documentation and thorough inline commeting to describe your program.
2. Write truth tables for the bitwise logic instructions AND, OR, XOR, and NOT. Include an example with each table and a description of one possible use of each instruction in a program.

Out-of-Class Assignments

1. Prepare a short programming exercise to be completed by one of your classmates. Your exercise must require that your classmate use a subroutine and the ARM CPU Architecture.
2. Use the Internet to find information about Disassembling C. Compare your Assembly Code to similar disassembled C code. What insights can you infer from the differences?

Jonathan W. Valvano. (2012). Embedded Systems: Introduction to ARM Cortex‐M Microcontrollers. CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 5th. 978-1477508992.

Elecia White. (2024). Making Embedded Systems: Design Patterns for Great Software. O'Reilly Media, 2nd. 978-1098151546.

Ariel Lutenberg, Pablo Gomez, Eric Pernia. (2022). A Beginner's Guide to Designing Embedded System Applications on Arm Cortex-M Microcontrollers. Arm Education Media, 1st. 978-1911531418.

Zero Cost Textbook

https://users.ece.utexas.edu/~valvano/Volume1/E-Book/

Engineering (Masters Required)

Computer Science (Masters Required)