Embedded Systems Design

Catalog description

This course is an advanced course where student teams use an agile design methodology to complete the design and implementation of an embedded systems project involving targeted stakeholders. The teams develop requirements, specifications, and test plans appropriate to complete unit testing and system level verification. An object-oriented language is used to facilitate rapid development using a manufacturer provided hardware abstraction layer. Embedded systems topics such as voltage format conversion (e.g., ADC, DAC, and level conversion), modulation techniques (e.g., data encodings and PWM), wired peripheral interfaces (e.g., I2C and SPI), wireless communication interfaces (e.g., Bluetooth and WiFi), and low power design are used by teams when appropriate to meet requirements.