CprE 588

Embedded Computer Systems

Spring 2009

Course Plan

For additional background content, I recommend checking out the web pages for some other courses in embedded computer systems linked from the resources page here. Some of the lecture material we will be basing our discussions on has been adapted from these sources.

Week	Topics	Lecture Notes	Readings	Assignments
Week 1 Jan 13,15	Introduction and Overview	Lecture #1	[1, 2, 3*]	Reading Review #1
Week 2 Jan 20, 22	System Level Design Example Digital Camera Example	Lecture #2	[4, 5, 6*]	Reading Review #2
Week 3 Jan 27, 29	Models of Computation	Lecture #3	[7, 8*]	Reading Review #3
Week 4 Feb 3, 5	Introduction to SpecC	Lecture #4	[9, 10, 11*]	Reading Review #4 Homework #1
Week 5 Feb 10, 12	System-Level Design with SpecC	Lecture #5	[12, 13*]	Reading Review #5
Week 6 Feb 17, 19	Model Refinement	Lecture #6		Reading Review #6
Week 7 Feb 24, 26	System-Level Design Tools	Lecture #7	[14, 15, 16*]	Reading Review #7 Homework #2
Week 8 Mar 3, 5	Architectural Specialization	Lecture #8	[17, 18, 19*]	Reading Review #8
Week 9 Mar 10, 12	DSP Processors (postponed for quiz)
Mar 17, 19	Spring Break (No lecture)
Week 10 Mar 24, 26	ASIP Synthesis	Lecture #9	[20, 21, 22]
Week 11 Mar 31, Apr 2	Introduction to SystemC	Lecture #10	[23, 24]
Week 12 Apr 7, 9	Project Roundtable Projects Part A			Homework #3
Week 13 Apr 14, 16	System-Level Design with SystemC	Lecture #11	[25, 26]
Week 14 Apr 21, 23	System Optimization
Week 15 Apr 28, 30	Project Roundtable Projects Part B		[27, 28, 29*]
May 5, 7	Finals Week (No Lecture)