CPE 3600 - Advanced Embedded Systems

3 lecture hours 2 lab hours 4 credits

Course Description
This course is an advanced course where student teams use an agile design methodology to complete the design and implementation of an embedded systems project involving targeted stakeholders. The teams develop requirements, specifications, and test plans appropriate to complete unit testing and system level verification. An object-oriented language is used to facilitate rapid development using a manufacturer provided hardware abstraction layer. Embedded systems topics such as voltage format conversion (e.g., ADC, DAC, and level conversion), modulation techniques (e.g., data encodings and PWM), wired peripheral interfaces (e.g., I2C and SPI), wireless communication interfaces (e.g., Bluetooth and WiFi), and low power design are used by teams when appropriate to meet requirements.
Prereq: CPE 2610 (quarter system prereq: CE 2812)
Note: None
This course meets the following Raider Core CLO Requirement: Integrate Learning

Course Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:

Function effectively as a team member helping to solve a real-world problem
Describe and utilize an agile design approach for project management
Develop and execute test plans to validate that requirements have been achieved
Utilize C++ to build embedded solutions to complex real-world problems implemented on a pre-built hardware development platform
Utilize the C++ standard template library in the construction of embedded solutions
Assess the impact of executing C++ code under embedded system limitations
Construct single and multitask applications utilizing a real time operating system

Prerequisites by Topic

Procedural programming experience in C
Object oriented programming skills equivalent to a first course in object-oriented programming
Program source control utilizing a version control system (e.g., git or svn)
Introductory embedded systems coursework including register level configuration of general-purpose inputs and output ports, timers, ADCs, and interrupts

Course Topics

Introduction to object creation in C++
Inheritance and abstraction in C++
Unit testing and code validation in embedded C++
Profiling C++ programs in an embedded system
Agile design methodology
Real-time embedded operating systems
Low power design in embedded systems
Use of C++ to write serial driver protocols to interface with serial peripherals.
Use of C++ to configure timer/counter peripheral for the generation of PWM signals
Touchscreen interface design and operation

Laboratory Topics

Introduction to agile incremental design using provided milestones.
Periodic progress reports from agile design teams
Project design and agile print planning
Testing and verification of embedded systems
Generation of object-oriented APIs for control of complex peripherals (e.g., a touchscreen) in a real-time embedded system via appropriate interface protocols

Coordinator
Dr. Adam Livingston

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