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ECE4075 - Real time embedded systems

6 points, SCA Band 2, 0.125 EFTSL

Undergraduate - Unit

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Faculty

Engineering

Organisational Unit

Department of Electrical and Computer Systems Engineering

Coordinator(s)

L Kleeman

Offered

Not offered in 2016

Synopsis

The unit enables students to understand, analyse, specify, design and test embedded systems in terms of the hardware architecture, distributed systems and the software development that deploys a real time kernel and the migration of software to hardware. The design, analysis and implementation of a real time kernel will be studied that includes scheduling policies, process creation and management, inter-process communication, efficient handling of I/O and distributed processor implementation issues. Students will be involved in a design project that involves the hardware and real time system design of an embedded system with hard deadlines using an FPGA development system.

Outcomes

To understand the development process for embedded systems from specification, simulation, implementation and testing
To gain an appreciation of the effectiveness and properties of a real time kernel in the software development process
To gain a knowledge and understanding of the properties of different scheduling policies and their implementation in a real time system
To understand the process of migration of a software definition to a hardware implementation as a means to accelerate an embedded system design
To understand the complexities and design approaches necessary in a distributed real time embedded system.

Assessment

Continuous assessment: 40%
Examination: (3 hours) 60%.
Students are required to achieve at least 45% in the total continuous assessment component (assignments, tests, mid-semester exams, laboratory reports) and at least 45% in the final examination component and an overall mark of 50% to achieve a pass grade in the unit. Students failing to achieve this requirement will be given a maximum of 45% in the unit.

Workload requirements

2 hours lectures, 3 hours laboratory and practice classes and 7 hours of private study per week

Chief examiner(s)

Prof Tom Drummond

Prerequisites

ECE3073 or TRC3300

Prohibitions

ECE4705, ECE5075