1. Understanding embedded system and embedded software design

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

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 –Input/Output Interfaces and 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

  (D) Mini-project implementation

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 Ed.)

1. Classic classroom lecture and discussion