Lectures

This page contains links to materials that can be used to teach an introductory class on embedded systems. These materials include lecture slides, lab manual, YouTube videos from the MOOC, and interactive web pages. PowerPoint lectures written by Professors Ramesh Yerraballi, Andreas Gerstlauer, Bill Bard, Nina Telang, Vijay Janapa Reddi, and Jonathan Valvano. There are 15 lectures, corresponding to approximately one powerpoint file per week. For each of the lectures there is a corresponding worksheet that can be used as a follow up to gauge students' understanding of that week's lecture.

Lecture slides

Lab Manual

There are two lab manuals available for use with this book. The MOOC lab manual describes the labs we used for the edX UT.6.01x online class that we presented Spring 2014. Each lab has two parts, developing the software in the simulator, and then building the hardware. There are interactive and automatic graders for each lab for both simulation and real board. These graders can be found step 2 on the Software Downloads page. The following list maps the twelve labs to the corresponding book chapters:

The other lab manual is the one we use here at the University of Texas to teach our introduction to embedded systems lab. This lab differs from the MOOC lab four ways. First, students are graded by designing, testing, and then showing their system to a teaching assistant or instructor. Second, the first five labs are in assembly, and the last five labs are in C. Third, this manual includes a communications lab, where the students connect two LaunchPads together. Fourth, this manual defines labs with color graphics LCD modules such as the Kentec EB-LM4F120-L35 or ST7735. There are automatic simulation graders for the first six labs.

Teaching Videos

Professors Yerraballi and Valvano produced about 170 YouTube videos for the edX UT.6.01x online class. The videos are grouped into 15 YouTube playlists that correspond in number with the MOOC labs. The following is a list of links to the YouTube playlists:

Interactive web pages

As part of the edX online class, we made some interactive web pages to illustrate fundamental concepts.