Embedded Systems Architecture

Fall 2008

EE 382N-4 Unique: 17228

Advanced Embedded Systems Architecture

NOTE: ECD Only - no auditors

Course Goals:

This course focuses on the HW/SW architectures of “System-on-a-Chip (SoC) implementations. These SoC’s are composed of hardware and software components which must be seamlessly integrated together to produce working “Systems-on-Chip” (SoC) or “Systems-in-Package” (SiP). These systems are becoming increasingly complex utilizing micro-architectural features from high performance computing platforms and operating systems such as Linux and Windows. The topics covered will remain focused on HW/SW design of embedded systems with an added focus of design optimization across the multiple design metrics such as power, cost, reusability, time to volume, performance, security, and robustness. This course will provide a working knowledge in both HW and SW architectures such that the student will be able to determine where to make multi-metric optimizations across these two domains.

Course prerequisites:

EE 360N undergraduate Computer Architecture, or an equivalent undergraduate computer architecture class.
Basic high level language programming skills such as C or C++ (not Java)
Some assembly language programming skills (ARM)
Some familiarity with Linux programming

Instructors:

Mark McDermott
Office: ENS 425

Phone: 471-3253
Office hours: Sun 14:00 - 16:00

Jacob Abraham

Steven Smith

Matt Genovese

TAs

Ramtilak Vemu

Office: ACES 2.402

Hours: tbd

email: tbd

Dates	Time	Lecture Topic	Instructor	Lecture Notes	HW Assignments	LAB Assignments
Aug 22	8:00 - 8:30	Intro to Embedded Systems Architecture	McDermott	Lecture 1	HW #1 Due Sep 21	LAB #1 Due Oct 5
	8:30 – 10:15	Processor Micro-Architecture Part 1	McDermott	Lecture 2
	10:30 - 12:00	Processor Micro-Architecture Part 2	McDermott	Lecture 3
Aug 23	8:00 – 9:30	Instruction Set Architecture Design	McDermott	Lecture 4
	9:30 – 10:45	ARM Instruction Set Architecture	McDermott	Lecture 5
	11:00 - 12:00	Monitors, Bootloaders	McDermott	Lecture 6
Sep 19	8:00 – 9:15	Embedded Linux Part 1	McDermott	Lecture 7	HW #2 Due Oct 19	LAB #2 Due
	9:15 – 10:30	Embedded Linux Part 2	McDermott	Lecture 8
	10:45 - 12:00	Device Driver Development	Genovese	Lecture 9
Sep 20	8:00 – 9:15	Interrupts & Interrupt Handlers	McDermott	Lecture 10
	9:15 – 10:30	Digital Signal Processor Architectures	McDermott	Lecture 11
	10:45 - 12:00	Blackfin Instruction Set Architecture	McDermott	Lecture 12
Oct 17	8:00 – 9:15	Reconfigurable Micro-Architectures & Hardware Acceleration	McDermott	Lecture 13	HW #3 Due Nov 16	LAB #3 Due
	9:15 – 10:30	FPGA Architectures	McDermott	Lecture 14
	10:45 - 12:00	Exam #1	McDermott
Oct 18	8:00 – 9:15	SW Library Development	Smith	Lecture 15
	9:15 – 10:30	Real Time Operating Systems	Smith	Lecture 16
	10:45 - 12:00	Embedded OS Middleware	Smith	Lecture 17
Nov 14	8:00 – 9:15	Flash Memory & Flash File Systems	McDermott	Lecture 18	HW #4 Due Dec 12
	9:15 – 10:30	Embedded Software Optimization & Power Aware Programming	Smith	Lecture 19
	10:45 - 12:00	I/O Subsystems	McDermott	Lecture 20
Nov 15	8:00 – 9:15	Networks-on-Chips	McDermott	Lecture 21
	9:15 – 10:30	Intelligent Sensors	McDermott	Lecture 22
	10:45 - 12:00	SOC Platform Architectures	McDermott	Lecture 23
Dec 11	8:00 – 9:15	Debugging Embedded Systems	McDermott	Lecture 24
	9:15 – 10:30	Testing Embedded Systems	Abraham	Lecture 25
	10:45 - 12:00	Exam #2	McDermott
Dec 12	8:00 - 12:00	Project Presentations

Grading:
Homework	10%
Labs	30%
Exam #1	15%
Exam #2	15%
Project	30%

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Oct 18