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• Spring 2016 Wait List: Thank you for your interest in this course. We know there is a wait list, and we plan to admit at least some students from the wait list. Last year everyone got in, but we can't guarantee that. If you are on the wait list, come to class the first day and we'll let you know what the situation is. If you're a grad student we usually have to wait until the first day of class to admit you even if there is space due to departmental policies ensuring undergrads can get in. Students who physically attend class and sign in on the roster will be given preference for admission. Of those students, we are required to follow the standard departmental admission priority, which usually deviates from your position number on the wait list. An additional consideration is whether you are available for a lab section that has space. So, bottom line, please be patient, flexible in your lab section, and come to class the first week.

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Required Hardware: You will be loaned a microcontroller board for the course based on the Freescale MC9S12C128 processor (one per student) and a prototype board (one per team). You must return these boards at the end of the semester, but they will be available if you choose to take 18-549 in a later semester. Required Text: Valvano, Embedded Microcomputer Systems: Real Time Interfacing, 2nd Edition, ISBN 0534551629. Note that this is an old 2006 edition that you will probably want to buy as an inexpensive used book. Do not buy the newer 3rd edition -- it leaves out significant important material.

Supplemental Text: Koopman, Better Embedded System Software, ISBN-13: 978-0-9844490-0-2. The material in this book will help you understand some of the key concepts, but is not testable material. This book is the primary text used for 18-649.

Handouts are provided in class. Lecture materials are only available in printed form, and is not available electronically. Note that dates in table below are subject to change if box is gray.

Meeting Date	Scheduled Lecture	Reading Valvano text unless otherwise noted .pdf links are CMU-only access (Lab dates shown are pre-lab due date)
Mon. 11-Jan-2016	Recitation / Week 1	Read Lab #1 before coming to class (See grid below for assignment due dates)
Wed 13-Jan	1. Course Intro & Background	Valvano book sections: 1.2, 1.5, Murray12 E-mail lab partner requests to course staff by WEDNESDAY 4 PM at:
Fri 15-Jan	2. Embedded Hardware	1.1, 1.4, 1.8 (NOTE: this is a one-time, full 2-hour lecture 10:30-12:20. Future Friday recitations will run 10:30-11:20)
Mon. 18-Jan	No Class (Martin Luther King Day)
Wed. 20-Jan	3. Microcontroller Instruction Set - Part 1	1.6, 2.1-2.2.8, 2.2.10
Fri. 22-Jan	Recitation / Week 2	Lab #2
Mon. 25-Jan	4. Microcontroller Instruction Set - Part 2	2.2.9, 2.2.11, 2.2.12, 2.5.1, 2.5.2, 2.5.4
Wed. 27-Jan	5. Engineering Process & Design Techniques	1.3, 2.3, 2.4.5, 2.5.3, 2.6, Gannsle98a, Wolf07 -- state machine section only. (Supplemental: Koopman Ch. 2-3, 12-13)
Fri. 29-Jan	Recitation / Week 3	Lab #3
Mon. 1-Feb	6. Embedded Language Use	2.5.1, 2.5.2, Jones98, Barr09 (Supplemental: Koopman Ch. 11)
Wed. 3-Feb	7. Coding Tricks; Multiprecision Math; Reviews	Crenshaw97, Gannsle98b (Supplemental: Koopman Ch. 22)
Fri. 5-Feb	Recitation / Week 4	Lab #4
Mon. 8-Feb	8. Memory and Memory Bus	1.9, 9.1-9.2.2, 9.3-9.4.1, 9.6.2, 9.8, Barr01, Freescale04
Wed. 10-Feb	9. Economics, Code Optimization, and Fixed Point	1.5.5, 2.1, Kraeling96 (Supplemental: Koopman Ch. 16)
Fri. 12-Feb	Recitation / Week 5	Lab #5
Mon. 15-Feb	10. Debug & Test	2.11, Schneider04, Knoke08 (Supplemental: Koopman Ch. 7,23)
Wed. 17-Feb	11. Serial Ports	3.1, 3.4, 7.1, 7.2, 7.5.1-7.5.2, 7.6.3; (wikipedia)
Fri. 19-Feb	Recitation / Week 6	Lab #6
Mon. 22-Feb	12. Time; Timer/Counters; Watchdog Timers	2.4.2-2.4.4, 6.1.4-6.1.5.1; Murphy01 (Supplemental: Koopman Ch. 29; Murphy00)
Wed. 24-Feb	First Exam (Covers Lectures 1-11, and omits Lecture 12)
Fri. 26-Feb	Recitation / Week 7	Lab #7 (Note special, later due date)
Mon. 29-Feb	13. Interrupts	4.1, 4.4, Massey01, Ganssle94
Wed. 2-Mar	14. Software safety case study	Supplemental: Leveson (especially sections 3.5.3, 3.6.1, 4 and pg 42); Koopman Ch. 28)
4-Mar to 13-Mar	NO CLASS; NO RECITATION - Spring Break / Week 8	No labs, no office hours
Mon. 14-Mar	15. Interrupt & Cyclic Task Response Timing	Ball02; Interrupt latency hand-out (Supplemental: Koopman Ch. 14.1-14.4)
Wed. 16-Mar	16. Preemptive Context Switching	4.15, 5.1, Labross03, Kalinsky01
Fri. 18-Mar	Recitation / Week 9	Lab #8
Mon. 21-Mar	17. Concurrency	2.9, 4.2, 4.3, 5.2, 5.3,Ganssle01 (Supplemental: Koopman Ch. 20)
Wed. 23-Mar	18. Scheduling	3.5.2, 5.4, Stewart01, Stewart02 (Supplemental: Koopman Ch. 14.5-14.8)
Fri. 25-Mar	Recitation / Week 10	Lab #9
Mon. 28-Mar	19. Digital to Analog, PWM	11.4, 6.2.3-6.2.4, 6.7, Barr01, 8.6
Wed. 30-Mar	20. Analog Inputs	3.5.4, 11.5. 11.10.2, 12.3.2, Maxim05, Maxim05a, Wagner02
Fri. 1-Apr	Recitation / Week 11	Lab #10
Mon. 4-Apr	21. Other I/O	8.1-8.3
Wed. 6-Apr	22. Control	13.1-13.4, Barr02
Fri. 8-Apr	Recitation / Week 12	Lab #11
Mon. 11-Apr	23. RTOS Selection; Why Software Quality Matters	Renwick04, Jones97, Hawley03, Kalinski12 (security)
Wed. 13-Apr	24. Bluetooth & CAN	Schill97, Spaker00
14-Apr to 15-Apr	NO RECITATION - Carnival / Week 13	No labs, no office hours
Mon. 18-Apr	25. System Resets, Robustness & Power Management	4.5-4.7, Gollakota06, (Supplemental: Koopman Ch. 30)
Wed. 20-Apr	Second Exam (Covers Lectures 12-25)	NONE
Fri. 22-Apr	No Recitation	NONE
Mon. 25-Apr	No Lecture; Work on project 11 instead.	OK to demo final project during any open lab hours and office hours this week
Wed. 27-Apr	No Lecture; Work on project 11 instead	OK to demo final project during any open lab hours and office hours this week
Fri. 29-Apr	ECE Day -- No Recitation / Week 15	Curtailed lab/office hours today; see blackboard
Wed. 4-May	Last day for Lab #11 demos See Blackboard for finals week demo scheduling lab hours and details	FINALS WEEK No class meetings this week. See Blackboard for TA schedule.
Thu. 5-May	Lab writeups due today, Thursday	Lab #11 writeup due today

• Many lectures have a corresponding lab assignment, which includes both homework and in-lab activities.
• Dates and topics are subject to change; however we will do everything reasonably possible to keep the two exam dates from changing.
• For advanced topics, see 18-649 and my Blog.

Office Hour Schedule

Lab demo schedule

Subject to change. Lab Demos are due during scheduled demo slot.
All hand-ins are due at 9:00 PM US Eastern Time unless otherwise noted. (Prelab early bonus cutoff is 1:30 PM ET.)