Electrical, Electronic and Computer Engineering
Information Technology
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Electrical, Electronic and Computer EngineeringInformation Technology |
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Semester 1 - 6 points
Aims
Course outcomes:
- Students will gain in-depth technical competence in the following
areas:
* Selection of appropriate sensors,
actuators, and interfaces for solving a particular technical problem
* Designing an embedded system hardware with
specific sensors and actuators
* Programming
an embedded system with a combination of C and assembly language
- Students will be aware of typical embedded system application areas
and will be able to design an embedded system to solve problems in
these application areas
- Students will be able to use
high-level system function units for designing embedded computer
systems and be able to verify their performance and use it to modify
the design
- The course will involve lab sessions where
students work in groups, where they have the opportunity to work as
team leaders or effective team members, which are being assigned
specific sub-tasks. Students will rotate their roles as team leaders
and effective team members.
- Students will learn about
special demands of life-critical embedded systems in application
areas like medical systems, transportation systems and control of
manufacturing machinery.
- Students are provided with a
foundation in the embedded systems area. This is a rapidly expanding
area, which they are encouraged to explore further and keep up with
technology trends.
Unit
Description
This unit includes the following topics:
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Embedded microcontrollers: |
CPU functionality, function units, structured CPU design, embedded system design, interfacing and integration, reconfigurable computing. |
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Instrumentation: |
Sensors, actuators, digital and analog I/O, motor drivers, shaft encoders, interface standards, standard protocols. |
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Programming for embedded systems: |
Assembly languages, C/C++ and interfacing with assembly languages, interrupt handling, timer interrupts, real-time systems, multi-threading, device drivers, data structures, programming techniques. |
Contact Hours
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Type |
Sessions |
Duration |
Note |
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Lectures |
13 * 2 hrs |
week 1-13 |
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Tutorials |
10 * 1 hr |
week 3-12 |
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Labs |
8 * 2 hrs |
week 5-12 |
weekly labs, 3h each, |
For days, time and venues, see: www.timetable.uwa.edu.au
Tutorial and Lab assignments are available on the web.
Students
should work in groups of two, so please find a partner from
the same lab group.
Unit Co-ordinator:
Professor
Thomas Bräunl
Tutors / Lab
Supervisors: Stephen
Whitely, Teoh Soo, Jonathan Wan
Textbooks:
Bräunl: Embedded
Robotics, 3rd Ed., Springer 2008
Recommended
Reading:
Thomas Harman: The
Motorola MC68332 Microcontroller, Prentice-Hall, 1991
The Motorola MC68000 Microprocessor Family, Prentice-Hall,
1996
Niklaus Wirth:
Digital Circuit Design, Springer, 1995
J. Jones, A.
Flynn: Mobile Robots, 2nd Ed., AK Peters, 1999
Kernighan, Ritchie: The C Programming Language,
alternatively: <any C programming book>
Course Notes: see link (pdf format)
Lectopia Recording: see
link
OLCR Registration: see
link
Tutorials:
see link
Tutorial
Solutions: see link
Lab Assignments:
see link
Previous
Exams: see
link
Supplem. Material : see
link
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Assessment
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Type |
Date |
% of final mark |
Comments |
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Lab 1-8 |
weeks 5-12 |
30% |
labs are conducted in groups of two students |
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Test 1 |
week 7 |
35% |
open book |
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Test 2 |
week 13 |
35% |
open book |
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No final examination |
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Penalties
Not
applicable for this unit.
Plagiarism
All work
submitted must be the student's (or group's, resp.) own work.
Citations must be clearly marked as such.
See the faculty
policy on plagiarism.
Scaling
See the faculty
policy for scaling
marks.
Appeals
See the faculty policy for appeals.
