| Instructor(s) | Dr. Gul Khan [Coordinator] Office: ENG448 Phone: (416) 979-5000 x 556084 Email: gnkhan@torontomu.ca Office Hours: 11:45AM-1:00PM Monday | ||||||||||||||
| Calendar Description | This course will cover the basics of embedded system organization, system on programmable-chip technologies and real-time systems. It provides the advance knowledge required for embedded computer design and development as well as real-time operating systems. Students are introduced to software development concepts applicable to real-time and embedded systems. Particularly ARM Cortex M3 will be studied as a representative embedded processor and embedded software development is carried out for ARM Cortex CPUs. The students will be able to grasp the main principles of embedded system design and understand the concept of hardware-software codesign, system on programmable chip (SoPC), real-time operating systems and scheduling techniques. Embedded system co-specification and partitioning is also introduced in the course. SystemC or other languages (e.g. UML, C, etc.) can be employed to present a unified view of the embedded systems. SystemC is introduced as a representative Co-specification language. Embedded hardware-software design and development tools (such as Altera Quartus II and SOPC builder) will be introduced. | ||||||||||||||
| Prerequisites | COE538 | ||||||||||||||
| Antirequisites | None | ||||||||||||||
| Corerequisites | None | ||||||||||||||
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| Learning Objectives (Indicators) | At the end of this course, the successful student will be able to:
NOTE:Numbers in parentheses refer to the graduate attributes required by the Canadian Engineering Accreditation Board (CEAB). | ||||||||||||||
| Course Organization | 3.0 hours of lecture per week for 13 weeks | ||||||||||||||
| Teaching Assistants | TBA | ||||||||||||||
| Course Evaluation |
Note: In order for a student to pass a course, a minimum overall course mark of 50% must be obtained. In addition, for courses that have both "Theory and Laboratory" components, the student must pass the Laboratory and Theory portions separately by achieving a minimum of 50% in the combined Laboratory components and 50% in the combined Theory components. Please refer to the "Course Evaluation" section above for details on the Theory and Laboratory components (if applicable). | ||||||||||||||
| Examinations | Midterm exam is in Week 8 during lecture time slot, 70-90 minutes, (covers Weeks 1-7 lectures). Final exam, during exam period, 120 minutes, close book (covers Weeks 1-13). | ||||||||||||||
| Other Evaluation Information | There will be a 5% per day penalty for late submission of labs and project. | ||||||||||||||
| Teaching Methods | Lecture slides will also be posted on Open Course Webpage before the lecture. Annotated Lectures will be posted on D2L after the lectures | ||||||||||||||
| Other Information | None | ||||||||||||||
Week | Hours | Chapters / | Topic, description |
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1 | 3 | Introduction to Embedded and Real-time Systems | |
2 | 3 | Introduction to Embedded and Real-time Systems | |
3 | 3 | ARM Cortex M3 Architecture and Programming | |
4 | 3 | ARM Cortex M3 for Multitasking Applications | |
5 | 3 | RTOS: Real time Operating Systems Pre-emptive and Non-preemptive Scheduling | |
6 | 3 | Introduction to Real-time operating system, RTX | |
7 | 3 | Real-time Scheduling | |
8 | 3 | Mid-term Exam (October 21, 2024 during the lecture time slot) | |
9 | 3 | Rate-Monotonic and Earliest-Deadline-First Scheduling. | |
10 | 3 | Hardware Software Co-design and Embedded System on Programmable Chips | |
11 | 3 | Accelerator based Embedded System Fault-tolerant Embedded Systems | |
12 | 3 | Fault-tolerant Embedded Systems. | |
13 | 3 | Catching up and Course review |
Week | L/T/A | Description |
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2 | ENG408 | Lab-1: Introduction to uVision |
3 | ENG408 | Lab-2: Exploring ARM Cortex-M3 Features |
4 | ENG408 | Lab-3a: RTX based Task Scheduling |
5 | ENG408 | Lab-3a: RTX based Task Scheduling |
6 | ENG408 | Lab-3b: Real-time Scheduling for Multi-threaded Application |
7 | ENG408 | Lab-3b: Real-time Scheduling for Multi-threaded Application |
8 | ENG408 | Lab-4: Real-time Scheduling and Priority Inversion |
9 | ENG408 | Course Project Progress |
10 | ENG408 | Course Project Progress |
11 | ENG408 | Course Project Interim Report |
12 | ENG408 | Project Demo and presentation |
13 | ENG408 | Project presentation 12/13 |
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