Course detail

Microprocessors and Embedded Systems (in English)

FIT-IMPeAcad. year: 2023/2024

Embedded systems, introduction, applications. Microcontroller architecture. Memory subsystem. Programmers model, programming of the ARM core. Stack. Interrupt subsystem and its programming. On chip peripheral devices and their programming: system clock generator, timer, communication interface UART, IIC and SPI, analogue and digital input and output, RTC module. Programming techniques for embedded systems in C language.

Language of instruction

English

Number of ECTS credits

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Guarantor

Ing. Josef Strnadel, Ph.D.

Department

Department of Computer Systems (UPSY)

Offered to foreign students

Of all faculties

Entry knowledge

To be familiar with the structure of CPU and other computer components, basics of electronics and machine-level programming. The basic knowledge of programming in C language.

Rules for evaluation and completion of the course

Completion of 4 laboratory tasks (16 points max in total),
completion of the mid-term written test (15 points max),
completion of the project, its defense and due-date submission to IS (14 points max).
Each of the above-mentioned activivities must be completed by its deadline known in advance; late completion will be evaluated by 0 points.
To pass the final exam, it is necessary to obtain at least 15 points from the exam; otherwise, the final exam will be evaluated by 0 points.

Following activities are monitored: the attendance and activity during lectures, laboratories and the progress of project-related works.
A prospective reimbursement of absences caused by an obstacle in the study is going to be realized according to the nature of the obstacle and lessons involved, e.g. by setting a substitute term or assigning a separate (homework) task. A solution to other kind of absence is not arranged herein, i.e., it is neither excluded nor guaranteed.

Aims

To give the students the knowledge of architecture of different microcontrollers. To acquaint with performance of individual subsystems namely CPU- programming model, flash memory, timer, interrupt subsystem, communication interface, AD converter. Make students familiar with basic rules and programming techniques in a high-level language C as well as with embedded system design.

Students are familiar with general structure of microcontrollers and with the techniques of embedded systems design.
Students are capable to design and debug the routines and initialization routine for each peripheral device. They are skilled in utilizing of basic debugging techniques for the application programs written in C language.
Understanding of design specificity of embedded systems using microcontrollers and techniques of application debugging.

Study aids

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites