1. Understanding embedded system and embedded software design

2. Getting familiar with the principles and techniques of embedded software development

3. Getting familiar with embedded software development through hands-on practicing

1. Lecture:

(1) Introduction to embedded systems

(2) The structure and elements of embedded systems

(3) Introduction to embedded software and embedded system programming

(4) Fundamental of embedded system programming – Assembly language programming

(5) Embedded system program building blocks

(6) Fundamental of embedded system programming – Assembly language and Event-Driven Programming

(7) Introduction to embedded operating system and embedded Linux

(8) Embedded software: The architecture and design

2. Lab practicing:

(A) Introduction to Linux operating system and practicing

(B) Non-OS embedded software design and practicing

     (1) Environment set-up, DIP-Switch and LED

     (2) 7-Segmentand LCD

     (3) Timer interrupt and Keypad

     (4) UART and Interrupt

     (5) CMOS Camera and applications

(C) Embedded software design and practicing with Embedded Linux

      (1) Environment set-up, Bootloader and Basic Linux Programming

      (2) Build Linux Kernel

      (3) Linux Device Driver

      (4) Linux Application Programming

      (5) Linux Multimedia Application

1. Hand-out of Lecture Notes

2. Text in Chinese:

   嵌入式系統設計-以ARM處理器基礎之SOC平台

   黃悅民等著，滄海書局出版，2006，ISBN: 9867287630

3. Fundamentals of Embedded Software

   – where C and Assembly meet

   Daniel W. Lewis, Prentice-Hall 2002, ISBN 0-13-061589-7

4. Embedded System Building Blocks (2nd)

   Jean J. Labrosse, R&D Books 2000, ISBN 0-87930-604-1

1. Classic classroom lecture and discussion