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Announcements

• 11/28/2023 HW 2 solution uploaded.
• 11/12/2023 HW 2 released.
• 08/30/2023 GTA office hours updated.
• 08/21/2023 Birth of the EECS388 web page for Fall 2023.

Contact List

Instructor

Prof. Mohammad Alian
Office: 2022EH
Office Hours: Tu,Th 12:15 - 1:00 PM
Email: alian@ku.edu

Graduate Teaching Assistants (GTAs)

SM Ishraq-Ul Islam
Office: EATN 3002
Lab Time: Monday Morning, Wednesday Morning, Wednesday Afternoon
Office Hours: 9:50AM - 10:50AM Mondays and 2:20PM - 3:20PM Thursdays
Email: ishraq@ku.edu

Soma Pal
Office: EATN 3002
Lab Time: Thursday Morning, Friday Morning
Office Hours: 2:30PM - 4:30PM Tuesdays
Email: soma_pg2021@ku.edu

Arin Dutta
Office: EATN 3002
Lab Time: Tuesday Morning, Tuesday Afternoon
Office Hours: 10AM - 12PM Wednesdays
Email: arindutta60@ku.edu

Mojahidul Ahsan
Office: EATN 3002
Lab Time: Monday Afternoon, Friday Afternoon
Office Hours: 9:30AM - 11:30AM Thursdays
Email: smmojahidul.ahsan@ku.edu

Supplimental Instructors (SIs) and Graders

Chauncey Hester
Office: EATN 3002
Office Hours: by email request
Email: chaunceydhesterjr@ku.edu

Christopher Gustanto
Office: EATN 3002
Office Hours: by email request
Email: cgustanto@ku.edu

Course Description

Lecture time: Tu, Th 11:00 AM - 12:15 PM

Class: EATN 2

An embedded system is a smart system with special-purpose computation capabilities. You can see examples of embedded systems every day in smart appliances, cars, medical devices, etc. In this course, you are going to learn about the hardware and software architecture of embedded systems. At the end of the course, you will learn how to program a microprocessor to interact with the physical world through sensors and actuators. This course is divided into two parts: lectures and labs. Lectures will teach you the theory about embedded systems, and in the labs you will implement what you learned during the lectures. Here is a (tentative) list of the topics that we will cover in the lectures:

• Introduction to embedded systems: what is an embedded system and the differences between embedded systems and general-purpose computers.
• Embedded software echo-system: Introduction to tools and environment for developing embedded software (build toolchain, GNU make, IDEs, git).
• C programming refresher: a brief introduction to C.
• RV32 ISA: a brief introduction to RISC-V assembly language.
• Microprocessor's memory address space.
• I/O (sensors and actuators): how to interact with the physical world using sensors and actuators.
• Interrupt: Difference between interrupt and polling, how to use them, and the implications of using them.
• Concurrency and threads: how to utilize the available parallelism in the hardware and develop concurrent embedded software.
• Scheduling: Real-time scheduling concepts in Linux.
• Networking: Ethernet and TCP/IP networking software stack.
• CPU and memory architecture: Learn how instructions get executed in the hardware. Studying the micro-architecture of a basic RISC-V, single-cycle processor.

Refer to the course syllabus for additional details

We use Canvas for posting grades and announcements. The lecture notes and course materials will be posted to the course website.

You do not need to study any textbook for this course. However, here is a list of textbooks that you may find helpful to understand the topics better. Please consult with me to give you exact pointers for which chapters in these textbooks are relevant to which topic.

Lecture Notes/Videos

Homework and Quizzes

Exams

Midterm exam is scheduled for October 10th 11:00AM - 12:15PM. The midterm covers untill Lecture 08.

Final exam is on December 14th from 10:30AM - 1:00PM. The exam will cover all the topics discussed during the semester.

Labs

Each student needs to attend one lab section every week. The lab instructions will be uploaded to Canvas before each week.

Final Project

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