COM609 Topics in Embedded Systems

Prof. Taeweon Suh

Fall 2010

Time: Monday (2pm ~ 5pm)

Classroom: 114A Main Building of College of Education

Office hour: After class as needed or by appointment at Lyceum 307

Textbook:

MicroC/OS-II, The Real-Timer Kernel by Jean J. Labrosse, 2nd Edition, CMPBooks, 2002

Reference:

Operating System Concepts, Abraham Silberschatz, 8th Edition, Wiley, 2009

Prerequisites:

Operating Systems, Computer Architecture, C & C++ Programming

Spartan-3E Starter Board from Xilinx

Announcement

　

08/30: First class meeting

08/30: Assignment #1, due on Sep. 06

08/30: µC/OS-II source code (v2.90) (download it from www.micrium.com or here)

09/05: Assignment #2, due on Sep. 13

        µC/OS-II porting instruction to Spartan-3 Starter board (based on Micrium instruction in here)

       • xps project booting uC/OS-II (targeted to Spartan-3 Starter Board)

09/13: µC/OS-II CD

09/13: µC/OS-II port to Linux

        µC/OS-II port to Windows

          (source: http://www2.hs-esslingen.de/~zimmerma/software/uCOS-II_LINUX.htm)

11/30: Microblaze Programming on Bare Hardware

Class Schedule (Tentative) and Slides

　

Week Topic Slide Reading Assignment Other Announcement
1: 08/30~09/05 Course Introduction & Embedded Systems Concept

Lec0 Course Intro

 Chapter 1 　

Lec1 ES vs GP
2: 09/06~09/12 Real-Timer Systems Concept Lec2 Real-Time Systems Chapter 2

Assignment #1 Due

3: 09/13~09/19 Kernel Structure Student Presentation Chapter 3 Assignment #2 Due
4: 09/20~09/26 No Class 　 　 Thanksgiving Week
5: 09/27~10/03 Task Management Student Presentation Chapter 4

Assignment #3 Due
6: 10/04~10/10 Time Management Student Presentation Chapter 5

Assignment #4 (Printing out Statistics) Due 

7: 10/11~10/17 Event Control Blocks Student Presentation Chapter 6 　
8: 10/18~10/24

Midterm

 　 　

Midterm Exam
9: 10/25~10/31 Semaphore Management Student Presentation Chapter 7 　
10: 11/01~11/07 Mutual Exclusion Student Presentation Chapter 8 　
11. 11/08~11/14 Event Flag Management Student Presentation Chapter 9 　
12. 11/15~11/21 Message Mailbox Management Student Presentation Chapter 10 　
13. 11/22~11/28 Message Queue Management Student Presentation Chapter 11 　
14. 11/29~12/05 Memory Management Student Presentation Chapter 12 　
15. 12/06~12/12 Porting uC/OS-II 　 Chapter 13 　
16. 12/13~12/19

Final

　 　

Final Exam

Note:

For Embedded System Design with XPS (Xilinx Platform Studio), visit Xilinx XUP (Xilinx University Program) website or download the same teaching materials here. Try to finish the lab1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 yourself.

　

Xilinx Documentations:

▪ Microblaze v7.30.b (pdf)

▪ XPS Interrupt Controller v2.01.a (pdf)

▪ XPS Timer/Counter v1.02a (pdf)

▪ XPS Uartlite (RS232_DCE) v1.01a (pdf)

▪ XPS_GPIO (LEDs_8bit, DIP_Switches_4Bit, Buttons_4Bit) v2.00a (pdf)

▪ Multi-Port Memory Controller (DDR SDRAM) v6.01a (pdf)

▪ LMB BRAM Interface Controller v2.10b (pdf)

▪ Block RAM (BRAM) Block v1.00a (pdf)