About this course: This course will teach you how to develop an embedded systems device. In order to reduce the time to market, many pre-made hardware and software components are available today. You'll discover all the available hardware and software components, such as processor families, operating systems, boards and networks. You'll also learn how to actually use and integrate these components. At the end of the course you will be ready to start architecting and implementing your own embedded device! You'll learn how to debug and finetune your device and how to make it run on a low power supply.
Who is this class for: In this course you'll learn about the basics of embedded systems components. If you're a product manager, a technical manager or involved in developing embedded systems or other products, then this is the course for you! This course focuses on embedded systems applications in the area of the IoT. Our blended learning approach offers you the best of both worlds: you can learn online whenever you want to, but can still get hands-on coaching from industry experts. This course is for first year Master students in Electrical Engineering or Computer Science. Note that as a consequence, quiz questions are more exam questions where you have to construct the answer based on the principles that are taught in the web lectures, rather than to recall the literal text of the teacher.
Created by: EIT Digital
Taught by: Martin Timmerman, Prof Dr
Royal Military Academy Brussels - Vrije Universiteit Brussels (VUB-ETRO) - Dedicated Systems Experts NV/SA (CEO)
Taught by: Maarten Weyn, Professor
Faculty of Applied Engineering - University of Antwerp / iMinds
| Level | Intermediate |
| Language | English |
| Hardware Req | TI Sensor Tag, Beagle Bone Black, Bluetooth Stick, Micro SD Card, SimpleLink Sensor Tag Debugger |
| How To Pass | Pass all graded assignments to complete the course. |
| User Ratings |
Syllabus
WEEK 1
Welcome to Architecting Smart IoT Devices
What you'll learn and how you'll learn it!
1 video, 2 readings
- Video: Welcome to Architecting Smart IoT Devices
- Lecture: Hardware you'll need for the assignments
- Lecture: How to navigate through this course
- Demande de discussion: Getting to know you!
WEEK 2
Hardware & Software for EmS
6 videos, 19 readings
- Video: Welcome to Module 1!
- Video: Processors
- Lecture: What's a web tour and what does it have to do with quizzes?
- Lecture: Study of a few Embedded Processor Families
- Lecture: MCU, SOC, FPGA
- Lecture: Cache, pipeline and coupling
- Video: Boards
- Lecture: Where do (development) boards come in?
- Lecture: Explore examples of boards
- Video: Networks
- Lecture: Optional Resources
- Lecture: Network basics - for network newbies
- Lecture: Sensor Networks for IoT
- Video: Software Components
- Lecture: Multi-what?
- Lecture: Operating System types
- Lecture: Protocol stacks
- Lecture: Licenses
- Lecture: Integrated Development Environment
- Video: IoT Components
- Lecture: IoT today and tomorrow
- Lecture: IoT and big data (in the cloud)
- Lecture: Complete solution market offerings
- Lecture: Application protocols
- Lecture: SensorTag Experiment
- Demande de discussion: SensorTag Experiment: what did you find out?
Graded: Processors
Graded: Boards
Graded: Networks
Graded: Software Components
Graded: IoT Components
WEEK 3
RTOS
6 videos, 26 readings
- Video: Welcome to Module 2!
- Video: From XXS to XXL
- Lecture: Optional Resources
- Lecture: Silicon vendor - independent OS
- Lecture: Silicon vendor OS for IoT
- Lecture: XXS (RT)OS for IoT
- Lecture: Evaluation reports on the embedded OS
- Video: Real-time Scheduling
- Lecture: Optional Resources
- Lecture: Arbitration in a hardware bus-based environment
- Lecture: Scheduling algorithms
- Video: Synchronisation and Communication
- Lecture: Optional Resources
- Lecture: RTOS overview
- Lecture: Reading more about RTOS
- Lecture: What is priority inversion, inheritance and ceiling?
- Lecture: What does an RTOS have to offer?
- Lecture: Multitasking programming language
- Lecture: Investigate an RTOS of your choice
- Video: Device Drivers
- Lecture: Optional Resources
- Lecture: VRTX vs Nucleus
- Lecture: Processor interrupt models
- Lecture: Device Driver model example
- Lecture: Driver certification programs
- Video: Five rules for architecting a multithreading design
- Lecture: Optional Resources
- Lecture: Rules for tasking
- Lecture: Rate Monotonic Scheduling
- Lecture: Tools for schedulability analysis
- Lecture: Fault-Tolerance Design
- Lecture: Turn your smartphone into a BB gateway
- Demande de discussion: Turn your smartphone into a BB gateway
Graded: XXS/XXL
Graded: Real-Time Scheduling
Graded: Synchronisation and Communication web tour
Graded: Device Drivers
Graded: Multithreading Design
WEEK 4
System Finalisation
6 videos, 28 readings
- Video: Welcome to Module!
- Video: Software development tools and environments
- Lecture: Optional Resources
- Lecture: Challenges in Embedded Systems Development
- Lecture: Connecting target and host
- Lecture: IDE examples
- Lecture: Languages for Embedded Systems
- Lecture: Remote debugginng (optional experiment)
- Lecture: Cross-compiler practice
- Video: Debugging basics: Thread and Device Drivers
- Lecture: Optional Resources
- Lecture: Simulation on host
- Lecture: Logical remote debugging
- Lecture: Realtime debugging
- Lecture: Step by step (optional)
- Video: Debugging Specials and Code Tuning
- Lecture: Optional resources
- Lecture: MMU as debugging tool
- Lecture: Finetuning
- Video: Testing and Device Simulation
- Lecture: Optional Resources
- Lecture: White- and black-box testing
- Lecture: Simulating input, capturing output
- Lecture: Sporadic bugs
- Lecture: System survival under failure
- Video: Hardware or Software Security?
- Lecture: Hardware or Software Security?
- Lecture: Security requirements
- Lecture: Security coding techniques
- Lecture: Cryptography
- Lecture: Security models
- Lecture: No reverse engineering
- Lecture: How vendors deal with security issues
- Lecture: Private Clouds
Graded: Development Tools and Environments
Graded: Debugging Basics
Graded: Debugging Specials
WEEK 5
Low Power
6 videos, 3 readings
- Video: Welcome to Module 4!
- Video: What is low power?
- Video: Power Budget
- Video: Measuring Power Consumption
- Video: On-board communication
- Video: External Communication
- Lecture: How long will the battery last?
- Lecture: Discussion prompt
- Lecture: Reading assignment
Graded: Graded Quiz Low Power
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Ratings and Reviews
The course contents were very good and the course was well delivered by the Professors. The course outlines some of the problems we Architects face across the embedded systems industry and I had learnt a lot about how much more care needs to be taken when defining an IoT device architecture.
Very good coverage. Good amount of details in the Curriculam.
Very good course contents & presentation.
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Excellent review in every aspect of IoT ecosystem, from the processor to the cloud.