18-649 Distributed Embedded Systems

Spring 2008
Carnegie Mellon University, ECE Department

Lectures: Mon/Wed 12:30-2:30 PM, SH 214
Project Meetings & Design Reviews: scheduled individually with TAs for 30 minutes weekly, normally on Fridays

Enrollment note: Updated 15 Jan 2008 -- At this point we have 29 students enrolled and 25 on the wait list. We are looking for a larger classroom that can hold up to 40 students and will enroll more students if an available classroom can be found. If you are on the wait list, we urge you to come to class and respond to the "wait list" e-mail we sent out by 11 AM Wednesday Jan 16. If you didn't get an e-mail, then send one to the course staff: ece649-staff*at*ece.cmu.edu.

Take a look at the Spring 2007 weekly student hour data to see what to expect in terms of workload.
If you have trouble seeing the required reading, try accessing via this VPN link (CMU andrew accounts only)
Project Group Assignments and meeting times (CMU access only)
Be sure to look at the full Administrative Notes page!
Here are the project reference materials in a handy list.

Recommended Text: (do not purchase until you have attended the first lecture!)
H. Kopetz, Real-Time Systems : Design Principles for Distributed Embedded Applications, Kluwer, 1997, $92 retail (ISBN: 0792398947).

Tentative Schedule (group presentations dates will be revised; some lecture dates may be changed):

Meeting Date	Lecture	Reading .pdf links are CMU-only access; use the "Digging deeper" links to see citations.	Project Milestones (Thursday evening)
Mon. 14-Jan-08	1. Course Intro	Required Reading (.pdf); Digging deeper Suggested: Kopetz Ch. 1
Wed. 16-Jan-08	2. Requirements	Required Reading (.pdf) Digging Deeper Suggested: Kopetz Chapter 4	Team selections due via e-mail on Wednesday at 9 PM
Fri. 18-Jan-08	Meetings to discuss simulator and project info; Proj 1 questions	Review Proj. 1 assignment before meeting
	Mon. 21-Jan-08; MLK Day observation; no class
Wed. 23-Jan-08	3. Elevators as a distributed embedded application	Required Reading (.pdf) Digging Deeper	Proj. 1 (requirements; simulator)
Fri. 25-Jan-08	Proj 1 retrospective; Proj 2 questions	Recitation slides
Mon. 28-Jan-08	4. UML-Based Design Process	Required Reading (.pdf) Digging Deeper
Wed. 30-Jan-08	5. End-to-end design example	Required Reading (.pdf) Digging Deeper	Proj. 2 (scenarios; sequence diagrams)
Fri. 1-Feb-08	Proj 2 retrospective; Proj 3 questions	Recitation slides
Mon. 4-Feb-08	6. Distributed + Embedded Systems	Required Reading (.pdf) Digging Deeper Suggested: Kopetz Chapter 2
Wed. 6-Feb-08	7. Embedded Communication Protocols	Required Reading (.html) Digging Deeper Suggested: Kopetz Chapter 7	Proj. 3 (event-triggered behavioral requirements)
Fri. 8-Feb-08	Proj 3 retrospective; Proj 4 questions	Recitation slides
Mon. 11-Feb-08	8. Reviews & Software Process	Required Reading (.pdf) Digging Deeper
Wed. 13-Feb-08	9. Boeing 777 Validation Testing (movie!) (no lecture notes)	Required Reading (.pdf) Digging Deeper	Proj. 4 (time-triggered design)
Fri. 15-Feb-08	Proj 4 retrospective; Proj 5 questions	Recitation slides
Mon. 18-Feb-08	10. Embedded Software Testing	Required Reading (.pdf) Digging Deeper
Wed. 20-Feb-08	11. CAN Protocol Guest: Rege George, MEDRAD	Required Reading (.pdf) Digging Deeper	Proj. 5 (implementation & test)
Fri. 22-Feb-08	Proj 5 retrospective; Proj 6 questions	Recitation slides
Mon. 25-Feb-08	12. CAN Performance 13. Expectations for mid-term project presentations	Required Reading (.pdf) Digging Deeper
Wed. 27-Feb-08	14. Embedded System Engineering Economics	Required Reading .html Suggested: .html Digging Deeper	Proj. 6 (implement & test)
Fri. 29-Feb-08	Proj 6 retrospective; Proj 7&8 questions	Recitation slides	Mid-Term Presentation Slides due Sun 2-Mar-08 at 9:00 PM
Mon. 3-Mar-08	Mid-term project presentations Groups: 1, 2, 3, 6, 7	No Required Reading
Wed. 5-Mar-08	Mid-term project presentations Groups: 4, 5, 8, 10	No Required Reading	Proj. 7 (finish implement; finish test)
	Spring Break Fri. 3/7- Fri. 3/14; no class; no TA meetings
Mon. 17-Mar-08	15. End-To-End System Scheduling	Required Reading (.pdf) Suggested: Kopetz Chapters 9-11 Suggested RMA reading: Obenza Digging Deeper
Wed. 19-Mar-08	16. Advanced elevator behavior (no lecture notes; bring questions) Guest: Rick Kephart, Emerson	No Required Reading	Proj. 8 (improved dispatcher: all SDs and dispatcher statechart)
Fri. 21-Mar-08	Proj 7 & 8 retrospective; Proj 9 questions	Recitation slides
Mon. 24-Mar-08	17. Verification, Validation & Certification	Required Reading ( .pdf) Digging Deeper
Wed. 26-Mar-08	18. Dependability/Reliability Guest: Chris Rigatti, Lutron	Required Reading (.pdf) Digging Deeper	Proj. 9 (All statecharts; all unit test design; some implementation)
Fri. 28-Mar-08	Proj 9 retrospective; Proj 10 questions	Recitation slides
Mon. 31-Mar-08	19. Critical Systems & Software Safety	Required Reading (.pdf) Digging Deeper
Wed. 2-Apr-08	20. Distributed Timekeeping Guest: Charles Shelton, Bosch	Required Reading (.pdf) Suggested: Kopetz Chapter 3 Digging Deeper	Proj. 10 (rest of implementation; execute unit tests; some integration tests)
Fri. 4-Apr-08	Proj 10 retrospective; Proj 11 questions	Recitation slides
Mon. 7-Apr-08	21. FlexRay Protocol	Required Reading (.pdf) Digging Deeper
Wed. 9-Apr-08	22. Critical Systems Engineering Guest: Jim Lenz, John Deere	Required Reading (.pdf) Digging Deeper	Proj. 11 (100% coverage for integration tests, instrumentation, more acceptance tests)
Fri. 11-Apr-08	Proj 11 retrospective; Final project questions	Recitation slides
Mon. 14-Apr-08	23. Humans as a System Component	Required Reading (.pdf) Digging Deeper
Wed. 16-Apr-08	24. Embedded Internet & Embedded Security Guest: Bill Milam, Ford Motor Company	Required Reading (.pdf) Digging Deeper	Draft presentation due Wednesday 16-Apr-08 11:59 PM (no penalty for up to 24 hours late)
	Carnival Break Thu 4/17-Fri 4/18; no class
Mon. 21-Apr-08	25. Ethics & Societal Impact Distributed Embedded Systems in the Automobile Industry Guest: Tom Fuhrman, General Motors	Required Reading (.pdf) Digging Deeper Final Presentation Notes: (.ppt \| .pdf)	Final presentation slides due Tuesday 22-Apr-08 at 4 PM
Wed. 23-Apr-08	Final project presentations Groups: 5, 8, 10
Fri. 25-Apr-08	Final project questions	Recitation slides
Mon. 28-Apr-08	Final project presentations Groups: 3, 4, 7
Wed. 30-Apr-08	Final project presentations Groups: 1, 2, 6		Final Project (fault tolerance and acceptance test)
Fri. 2-May-08	Final project retrospective & demos during TA meeting times	Recitation slides

Notes:

Team status meetings with a TA are required every Friday that classes are scheduled.
Dates and topics are subject to change; however we will do everything reasonably possible to keep presentation dates and project deadlines from changing.