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
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>
Lecture Notes: see link (VPN required!)
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
Embedded Systems Hall of Fame
Quiz:
Answer A, B, C or D (res)
Assessment
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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.
