Practical Education Fostered by Research Projects in an Embedded Systems Course

Table 1

SSC0711: course schedule.

Week	Topics
	Theoretical	Practical
1	Introduction: embedded systems	—
2	Embedded systems design flow	Tools
3	State machines	Candidate projects
4	Concurrent process	Problem analysis
5	Interfaces and protocols	SW implementation
6	Control systems	SW implementation
7	HW/SW partitioning	Performance analysis
8	HW/SW integration	HW modelling
9	—	HW implementation
10	—	HW implementation
11	—	HW implementation
12	SoC technology	HW implementation/tests
13	State-of-art HW/SW codesign	HW/SW integration
14	—	HW/SW integration/tests
15	—	Demonstration