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
WEEK 2
Hardware & Software for EmS
6 videos, 19 readings
Graded: Processors
Graded: Boards
Graded: Networks
Graded: Software Components
Graded: IoT Components
WEEK 3
RTOS
6 videos, 26 readings
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
Graded: Development Tools and Environments
Graded: Debugging Basics
Graded: Debugging Specials
WEEK 5
Low Power
6 videos, 3 readings
Graded: Graded Quiz Low Power
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EIT Digital offers an online programme in 'Internet of Things through Embedded Systems'. Achieving all certificates of the online courses and the specialization provides an opportunity to enroll in the on campus program and get a double degree. These are the courses in the online programme:
Ratings and Reviews
This course provide a lot of references, it is well organized, although maybe you will need more to do it than the time estimated.
Good, broad introduction to serious embedded systems. It covers quite advanced topics, definitely not for beginners. Not that it is hard but to fully understand requires it previous knowledge and good studying skills.
The course definitely needs work. Mostly it is a 5-10 min video about the topic and then a bunch of links to webpages, scientific articles, books, wiki entries, etc. that you need to read. Then a short quiz with rather specific questions about the readings. Many times it is not clear in the links what you should be looking for (sometimes its just a link to a home page) so the quiz is hard. The course needs work to make it more engaging and interactive.
I specially liked the last module about battery powered devices. It could be very useful as a course on its own. I think many people would like to learn about this topic.
Very good introductory course into the field of embedded systems. I would recommend this course to anyone who is willing to step into the field of IoT. The course offers a wealth of resources for individual study in a very systematic manner.
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Very good course contents & presentation.