41858 - Embedded systems (Graduate Course)

Learning outcomes

The Course aims at providing an overall view (form a "system point of view") of the realization and applications of embedded systems.

The Course offers also a "framework" for more specialized subjects, such as, for instance, hardware- software co-design, high security systems, virtual instrumentation,... 

 

 The course allows to achieve the following main know-how:

a) comparative evaluation of the different possibilities to realize embedded systems (depending on market requirements and applications); 

b) evaluations of costs, development times and risks in the realization of embedded systems; 

c) components and technologies of embedded systems.

 

Course contents

• Embedded systems and their applications (electronics everywhere)

• Metrics of embedded systems (cost, performance, power consumption, time-to-market, product lifetime,...)

• Components of embedded systems (processors, memories, peripherals, ...)

• Realization of embedded systems (with standard PCBs, standard components, synthesized processors, FPGA , ASICs, ...)

• PCB technologies

• Simulation, emulation, rapid prototyping

• Testing and certification

• Examples of realizations optimized for different applications 

• Analysis of development costs and times 

• Lab work on specific realizations

Readings/Bibliography

Embedded System Design: A Unified Hardware/Software Introduction; Frank Vahid and Tony Givargis; John Wiley & Sons; ISBN: 0471386782. Copyright (c) 2002.
http://www.cs.ucr.edu/content/esd/

Teaching methods

Frontal lectures

Classwork

Practical lab-work

Assessment methods

Practical work or mini-thesis

 

+ oral

Teaching tools

video-projector, PC.

Laboratory

Links to further information

http://www-micrel.deis.unibo.it/SMLS/

Office hours

See the website of Bruno Riccò