AME 3623: Embedded Real-Time Systems
(Spring 2012)
This course provides an introduction to integrated hardware/software
solutions in computational systems with sensing and actuation. Today,
devices including microwave ovens, VCRs, high-speed trains,
automobiles, cochlear implants, and artificial limbs routinely employ
a variety of embedded microcontrollers for process control. We will
explore the concepts fundamental to these applications while designing
and building our own robot controllers.
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By the end of this course, you should be able to:
- design and implement embedded circuits involving
microcontrollers, sensors, and actuators,
- design, program and debug embedded sensing and control software,
- work in collaborative teams to solve system design and
implementation problems, and
- communicate in both oral and written forms with team members.
This is a very hands-on class: every student will
be involved in the design, implementation, and programming for the
laboratory exercises. Note that this component of the class will
involve a non-trivial amount of time; students should plan their
schedules accordingly.
Topics will include:
- digital logic and Boolean Algebra,
- sequential logic,
- number representations and arithmetic,
- basic microprocessor design,
- embedded system development environments,
- processor input/output implementations and electronic
interfaces (including analog-to-digital translation),
- serial protocols and implementation,
- controller design and implementation,
- basics of operating systems (including concurrency and
real-time issues), and
- issues in embedded hardware design and debugging.
Instructor: Andrew
H. Fagg
Office: DEH 243
Email: fagg -- cs.ou.edu
Phone: 325-8606
Office Hours
Teaching assistant: Andrew Kooiman
Email: Andrew.D.Kooiman-1 -- ou.edu
Office Hours
Lecture Time: T/Th 9:00-10:15
Lecture Location: Devon Energy Hall 130
Lab location: Felgar Hall 300
Textbooks: as there is not an appropriate, comprehensive textbook available, we will
be drawing our readings from the net and from part of one textbook.
This textbook and several optional supplementary textbooks
are listed below:
- Real-Time Systems Development, Rob Williams (2006),
Elsevier Ltd. Real-time systems introduction.
Electronic copy
(must log in with OU ID)
- (reference)
Embedded C Programming and the Atmel AVR, Richard
H. Barnett, Sarah Cox, Larry O'Cull (2003), Thomson/Delmar
Learning, ISBN: 1401812066. The first half of the book is a good review
of C (the latter half discusses a compiler that we are not using).
Available at Bizzell Library. Some excerpts available on D2L.
- (reference)
Arduino microcontroller processing for everyone!
Steven F. Barrett (2010), Morgan and Claypool. General overview (and some examples) of the
Arduino platform. Electronic copies: part 1 and part 2
(must log in with OU ID)
- (reference) Designing Embedded Hardware, John Catsoulis,
O'Reilly, 2005, 2nd Edition, ISBN: 0-596-00755-8. General hardware tutorials.
Important Pages
fagg at cs.ou.edu
Last modified: Tue May 15 22:45:18 2012