COURSE DESCRIPTION
This capstone course comprises a semester-long project experience
geared towards the development of skills to design realistic and
practical embedded systems and applications. Students will work in
teams on an innovative project that will involve the hands-on design,
configuration, engineering, implementation and testing of a prototype
of an embedded system of their choice. Students will be expected to
leverage proficiency and background gained from other courses,
particularly with regard to embedded real-time principles and embedded
programming. The project will utilize a synergistic mixture of skills
in system architecture, modular system design, software engineering,
subsystem integration, debugging and testing. From inception to
demonstration of the prototype, the course will follow industrial
project practices, such as version control, design requirements,
design reviews and quality assurance plans. The lecture
content will cover background material intended to complement the
project work, and will also leverage lessons learned from case studies of industrial
practices and incidents. The remainder of the course will consist of regular team
presentations of key project milestones, current project status, a
final project presentation and functional demonstrations of various
subsystems, even as the entire prototype is being developed.
Pre-requisites: 18-348 or 18-349
Format: 4 hrs lecture, 8 hrs lab
Lectures: Wed & Fri 10.30-12.20pm, PH A18A (Spring 2008)
INSTRUCTOR
Prof. Priya
Narasimhan, Associate Professor in the ECE Department at
Carnegie Mellon, has 10 years of
experience, and over 50 publications, in the field of fault-tolerant
distributed systems. Apart from her significant contributions to
industrial dependability standards, she has real-world experience as
the CTO and Vice-President of Engineering of a start-up company
building embedded fault-tolerance products. Her current research
focuses on fault-tolerant and survivable distributed middleware
systems, both in the embedded and enterprise domains. She is also
passionate about the development of assistive embedded technologies.
She is a rabid fan of the Pittsburgh Steelers.
Office: CIC 2202
Tel: 412-268-8801
Email: priya@cs.cmu.edu