18-348 Embedded System Engineering

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Required Hardware: You will be loaned a microcontroller board for the course based on the Freescale MC9S12C128 processor (one per student) and a prototype board (one per team). You must return these boards at the end of the semester, but they will be available if you choose to take 18-549 in a later semester. Required Text: Valvano, Embedded Microcomputer Systems: Real Time Interfacing, 2nd Edition, ISBN 0534551629. Note that this is an old edition. Do not buy the newer 3rd edition -- it leaves out some important material.
Supplemental Text: Koopman, Better Embedded System Software, ISBN-13: 978-0-9844490-0-2. The material in this book will help you understand some of the key concepts, but is not testable material. This book is the primary text used for 18-649.

Handouts are provided in class. Lecture materials are only available in printed form.

Meeting Date	Scheduled Lecture	Reading Valvano text unless otherwise noted .pdf links are CMU-only access (Lab dates shown are pre-lab due date)
Mon. 14-Jan-2013	1. Course Intro & Background	Valvano book sections: 1.2, 1.5, Murray12 E-mail lab partner requests to course staff today by WEDNESDAY 9 PM at:
Wed. 16-Jan	2. Embedded Hardware	1.1, 1.4, 1.8
Fri. 18-Jan	Recitation	Lab #1
Mon. 21-Jan	3. Microcontroller Instruction Set - Part 1	1.6, 2.1-2.2.8, 2.2.10
Wed. 23-Jan	4. Microcontroller Instruction Set - Part 2	2.2.9, 2.2.11, 2.2.12, 2.5.1, 2.5.2, 2.5.4
Fri. 25-Jan	Recitation	Lab #2
Mon. 28-Jan	5. Engineering Process & Design Techniques	1.3, 2.3, 2.4.5, 2.5.3, 2.6, Gannsle98a, Wolf07 -- state machine section only. (Supplemental: Koopman Ch. 2-3, 12-13)
Wed. 30-Jan	6. Embedded Language Use	2.5.1, 2.5.2, Jones98, Barr09 (Supplemental: Koopman Ch. 11)
Fri. 1-Feb	Recitation	Lab #3
Mon. 4-Feb	7. Coding Tricks; Multiprecision Math; Reviews Guest: Tom Zavisca, Chief Architect, Green Hills Software	Crenshaw97, Gannsle98b (Supplemental: Koopman Ch. 22)
Wed. 6-Feb	8. Debug & Test	2.11, Schneider04, Knoke08 (Supplemental: Koopman Ch. 7,23)
Fri. 8-Feb	Recitation	Lab #4
Mon. 11-Feb	9. Memory and Memory Bus	1.9, 9.1-9.2.2, 9.3-9.4.1, 9.6.2, 9.8, Barr01, Freescale04
Wed. 13-Feb	10. Economics, Code Optimization, and Fixed Point	1.5.5, 2.1, Kraeling96 (Supplemental: Koopman Ch. 16)
Fri. 15-Feb	Recitation	Lab #5
Mon. 18-Feb	11. Serial Ports	3.1, 3.4, 7.1, 7.2, 7.5.1-7.5.2, 7.6.3; (wikipedia)
Wed. 20-Feb	First Exam (Covers Lectures 1-11)
Fri. 22-Feb	Recitation	Lab #6
Mon. 25-Feb	12. Time; Timer/Counters; Watchdog Timers	2.4.2-2.4.4, 6.1.4-6.1.5.1; Murphy01 (Supplemental: Koopman Ch. 29; Murphy00)
Wed. 27-Feb	13. Interrupts	4.1, 4.4, Massey01, Ganssle94
Fri. 1-Mar	Recitation	Lab #7
Mon. 4-Mar	14. Interrupt & Cyclic Task Response Timing	Ball02; Interrupt latency hand-out (Supplemental: Koopman Ch. 14.1-14.4)
Wed. 6-Mar	15. Preemptive Context Switching	4.15, 5.1, Labross03, Kalinsky01
8-Mar to 17-Mar	NO CLASS; NO RECITATION - Spring Break	No labs, no office hours
Mon. 18-Mar	16. Concurrency	2.9, 4.2, 4.3, 5.2, 5.3,Ganssle01 (Supplemental: Koopman Ch. 20)
Wed. 20-Mar	17. Scheduling	3.5.2, 5.4, Stewart01, Stewart02 (Supplemental: Koopman Ch. 14.5-14.8)
Fri. 22-Mar	Recitation	Lab #8
Mon. 25-Mar	NO CLASS
Wed. 27-Mar	18. RTOS	Renwick04, Jones97, Hawley03
Fri. 29-Mar	Recitation	Lab #9
Mon. 1-Apr	19. Digital to Analog, PWM, Stepper Motors	11.4, 6.2.3-6.2.4, 6.7, Barr01, 8.6
Wed. 3-Apr	20. Analog Inputs	3.5.4, 11.5. 11.10.2, 12.3.2, Maxim05, Maxim05a, Wagner02
Fri. 5-Apr	No Recitation Today
Mon. 8-Apr	Recitation (at 11:30 AM)	Lab #10 (Prelab due Monday 8-Apr)
Wed. 10-Apr	21. Other I/O, Human Interface, Security	8.1-8.3, Kalinski12 (security)
Fri. 12-Apr	Recitation	Lab #11 (Prelab is due MONDAY 15-Apr)
Mon. 15-Apr	22. Control	13.1-13.4, Barr02
Wed. 17-Apr	23. Bluetooth & CAN	Schill97, Spaker00
18-Apr to 19-Apr	NO RECITATION - Carnival	No labs, no office hours
Mon. 22-Apr	24. System Resets, Robustness & Power Management	4.5-4.7, Gollakota06, (Supplemental: Koopman Ch. 30)
Wed. 24-Apr	Second Exam (Covers Lectures 12-24)	NONE
Fri. 26-Apr	Recitation	NONE
Mon. 29-Apr	25. Software safety (Therac 25); Error Detection Codes	Leveson (especially sections 3.5.3, 3.6.1, 4 and pg 42) (Supplemental: Koopman Ch. 28)
Wed. 1-May	No Class Today -- Work on Projects!	OK to demo final project during any open lab hours this week
Fri. 3-May	ECE Day -- No Recitation	Curtailed lab/office hours today; see blackboard
Wed. 8-May	Last day for Lab #11 demos See Blackboard for scheduling details	(FINALS WEEK starts Mon 6-May; no class this week)
Fri. 10-May	Lab writeups due today, Friday May 10	Lab #11 writeup due today

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• Dates and topics are subject to change; however we will do everything reasonably possible to keep the two exam dates from changing.
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Lab demo schedule

Subject to change. Lab Demos are due two hours after start of lab time.