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Course Outline

Introduction

  • The concept of design
  • Comparing C and Embedded C

The Lifecycle of an Embedded Application

  • The development workflow
  • Maintenance procedures
  • The extended lifecycle

Design Tools

  • Open source versus proprietary solutions
  • Compilers, assemblers, and linkers
  • Libraries
  • Debuggers
  • Simulators
  • Integrated Development Environments (IDEs)

Challenges in Embedded Design

  • Constraints in embedded computing design
  • Cost implications
  • Performance and efficiency metrics
  • Power consumption
  • Thermal management

Setting Design Objectives

  • Emphasizing simplicity
  • Defining system functionality
  • Structuring program logic and architecture

Ensuring System Reliability

  • Inspection and maintenance strategies
  • Uptime requirements
  • Identifying points of failure

Code Reusability

  • Designing to avoid redundancy

Code Abstraction

  • Implementing information hiding
  • Creating context-free modules

Code Modularization

  • Decomposition techniques
  • Achieving loose coupling
  • Ensuring strong cohesion
  • Maintaining acyclic dependencies

Code Maintainability

  • Enhancing readability
  • Improving testability
  • Increasing configurability
  • Facilitating performance upgrades

Hardware Considerations

  • Scalable Thermal Design Power (TDP)
  • Integrated graphics
  • Additional factors

Summary and Conclusion

Requirements

  • Familiarity with basic embedded system concepts
  • Prior experience with Embedded C programming
  • A solid grasp of fundamental electronics principles

Target Audience:

  • Software Developers
 14 Hours

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