UNSW Handbook Course - Embedded Systems Design

Embedded Systems Design - ELEC2142


	Faculty: Faculty of Engineering
	School: School of Electrical Eng and Telecommunications
	Course Outline: http://www.ee.unsw.edu.au/
	Campus: Kensington Campus
	Career: Undergraduate
	Units of Credit: 6
	EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)
	Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 6
	Enrolment Requirements:
	Prerequisite: ELEC2141and COMP1921
	CSS Contribution Charge:Band 2 (more info)
	Tuition Fee:See Tuition Fee Schedule
	Further Information: See Class Timetable

Description

An introduction to programmer model of computer organisation using assembly and machine language. Process of translation from high-level language to machine instructions. Number representation, computer arithmetic, instruction set architecture, I/O interfacing, I/O interrupts, programming interrupts, exceptions and their support in architecture. Memory management and protection and their support in architecture, the role of OS in handling exceptions. Multi-tasking and multi-threading environments. Use of interrupts for sampling, link-lists and circular buffers. D/A and A/D conversion and interfacing to the real physical world. Appreciation of the concepts learnt in the deployment of real-time systems.

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