Course offered by the System and Software Engineering group together with the Computer Architecture and Embedded Systems group during summer semester 2019.

Credits

• Master "Research in Computer & Systems Engineering": compulsory optional subject for the second semester (Module "Computer Engineering & Architecture" of Advanced Studies)
• 2 SWS lectures, 1 SWS seminar; 5 LP (credit points)
• There is a formally independent lab training class on the same subject that can be done together with CES.

Contents

Introduction to Embedded Systems Design (see "Lectures" below for a more specific list of topics after logging in to the web site)

• The exam has been planned, details below.
• The student talks have been planned, there may be updates to the schedule if necessary. They will already begin on Tuesday April 30 because of the high number of participants.
• The lecture takes place in lecture room HU211/12 (Humboldt building) on Tuesdays at 16:45. The time may change for the second half of the semester.
• Please enrol and register for your choice of student talk via Moodle until April 21.
• Please officially register your participation in the class with your Thoska card before your talk takes place, but in any case no later than May 13! You have to do the class afterwards.
• The embedded systems lab (which is organized independently from the CES lecture, but is a good practical supplement) starts on Thursday April 18. Check its own web site for details.

• Lecturers: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Wolfgang Fengler and Prof. Dr.-Ing. Armin Zimmermann
• Lecture: one meeting per week, Tuesday 16:45 - 18:15 , lecture room HU211/212
  (during the second half of the semester the lecture may move)
  
• Parts of the course 
  • Lecture throughout the summer semester
  • Reading assignments accompanying the lecture, books are available in the library
  • Talks prepared individually and given by students, see below for scheduled days and room
  • Written exam (details see below)
• Grading: based on exam (70%) and talk (30%), aPL; both parts have to be passed.
• All parts of the course are held in English

To access downloadable material for the lecture and see the reading assignments, log in to the web site using your general TU account at the top right of the web site.

Just like for the software & systems engineering class in Winter, there will be student talks assigned on special topics of embedded systems. There are several seminar-style meeting in which the participants give their talks. The talk is part of the grading and can be done individually or in groups of two students.

Topics are based on books from the course collection in the library and others that can be borrowed from Prof. Zimmermann. Each talk must not exceed 12 minutes (15 minutes for talks prepared by two students), discussion time is extra. Dont try to squeeze all of the contents of your reference documents into the slides, concentrate on the main points of your topic. It is not necessary to repeat information known from the previous lectures (S&SE, CES). Please email your presentation (either PDF or PPT format) to Prof. Zimmermann on the day before the seminar, to give all presentations using one laptop computer. 

The student talks take place Tuesdays at 9:00 at the following planned days (depending on the number of participants) in room HU210. The table lists the numbers of topics given above in the list. Re-scheduling may happen depending on available days.

The written exam takes place Monday, July 29 from 12:00 until 13:30 in room HU-Hs. Participants may bring one A4 sheet with their own hand-written lecture notes (one side only, not printed or copied). Other than that, there are no documents allowed. Cell phones or any other communication devices must not be used and have to stay switched off. Please bring your student ID card as well as a photo ID.

Textbooks

Course reserve collection in the TU Ilmenau library - books for the course that cannot be borrowed but have to be read in the library. The following books will be available during the semester:

• Marilyn Wolf: Computers as Components (chapter numbering based on 3rd edition 2012, but there are newer editions in the library)
• Alan Burns and Andy Wellings: Real-time systems and programming languages (Addison-Wesley 2001)
• Jane Liu: Real-Time Systems (Prentice Hall 2000)
• Jim E. Cooling: Software engineering for real-time systems (Addison-Wesley 2001)

In-depth material about Arduino and C programming by Jim Fiore:

• Description of the Arduino architecture, Atmel microcontroller, and C programming (local copy)
• Sample problems for C- and Arduino-specific issues (local copy)

Further comments in the lecture.