Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
CPEG 340: Embedded System Design
Course Guide
1. Course Details
- Level: Seniors
- Prerequisites: CPEG 220 Computer Organization and Architecture
- Lecture Times: UTR 11:00 a.m. – 11:50 a.m.
- Classroom: A 208
- Lab Times: TBA
- AY / Semester: 2011 – 2012 / Spring
- Professor: Dr. I. Damaj
- Contact Details: idamaj@auk.edu.kw
- Course Detailed Site: http://lms.auk.edu.kw
- Professor's Website: http://www.idamaj.net
- Summary of Assessment Method: Midterm, Assignments, Project, and a final exam
- Textbook: Embedded System Design: A Unified Hardware/Software Introduction, Frank Vahid andTony Givargis John Wiley & Sons; 2002.
- Software Tools: Quartus, Intel Development Suite
- References:
Computer Organization and Design: the Hardware/Software Interface, David A. Patterson and John L. Hennessy, Revised Fourth Edition, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, 2012.
Digital Design, 4th edition, M. Mano and M. Ciletti, Pearson International Edition, 2007
Introduction to Parallel Processing: Algorithms and Architectures. Behrooz Parhami, Plenum 1999
Digital Fundamentals with PLD Programming, 1st edition, Thomas Floyd, 2006
2. Catalog Description
System design process: requirements analysis, specification, hardware/software co-design, testing; embedded computing platforms: general-and special-purpose processors, hardware accelerators, systems-on-a-chip, intellectual property (IP) core-based design; software design tools and technologies: CAD tools, compilers, and assemblers; hardware design tools and technologies: hardware-description languages, high-level synthesis tools, ASIC and FPGA design. Prerequisite: CPEG 220 Computer Organization and Architecture. 3 Credits.
3. Student Learning Outcomes
At the end of this course the students will be able to:
- Understand the basis of embedded system design (Design Technology, IC Technology, etc.)
- Understand embedded system design requirements' challenges (area, cost, speed, etc.)
- Understand different embedded systems (SPPs, ASIPs, etc.)
- Understand Different IC technologies (Full-custom, semi-custom, etc.)
- Design and Implement SPPs (Datapath, FSM, FSMD, and controller)
- Design and Implement ASIPs (Instructions, Format, Datapath, FSM, FSMD, and controller)
- Use different memory arrangements in embedded systems
- Use different bus technologies in embedded systems
- Write VHDL programs with advanced features
4. Schedule
| Details | Topic | Chapter No. | Assessment |
|---|---|---|---|
| Week 1 - 3 | Embedded Systems Overview | 1 | Assignment I |
| Weeks 4 - 8 | Custom Single-purpose Processors: Hardware | 2 | Assignment II; Project Phase I |
| Weeks 9 - 11 | General-purpose Processors: Software | 3 | Assignment III; Project Phase II |
| Weeks 12 – 13 | Memory | 4 | Midterm; Project Phase III |
| Week 13 - 14 | Interfacing | 5 | Project Phase IV |
| Week 15 | Projects |
5. Assessment of the Course
| Midterm | 20% |
| Assignments | 30% |
| Project | 25% |
| Final | 25% (comprehensive) |
6. Announcements
[May 15, 2012] Topic 5 material is now complete on Moodle and appears as follows:
- The Term Project Presentations are scheduled on Tuesday, May 15, 2012, in the DSL lab between 11:00 am and 2:00 pm.
- The final exam is on Sunday the 20th of May at 11:00 a.m. in A208. The final is comprehensive and includes chapters 1 through 5. The final is a closed-book exam. You are allowed to use a single double-sided cheatsheet.
[May 5, 2012] Topic 4 material is now complete on Moodle and appears as follows:
- The Practical Exam of the assignments' assessment is scheduled on Thursday, 10th of May, 2012 in the DSL lab B (108). The exam is between 11:00 am and 2:00 pm. The exam duration is 90 minutes. Student distribution and exam times will be posted on the day of the exam. During the exam, you are allowed to use the following resources only:
- DE2-70 User Manual
- Assignments I, II, and III reports and programming files.
- The exam will include practical demonstration of your implementations of Assignments I, II, and/or III.
- The exam will also include questions that will require implementations using VHDL under Quartus.
- You will be asked to download and demonstrate your new implementations using the DE2-70 board.
- The scope of the exam will only include the interfaces presented in Assignments I, II, and III.
[April 22, 2012] Topic 3 material is now complete on Moodle and appears as follows:
[March 27, 2012] Topic 2 material is now complete on Moodle and appears as follows:
[Feb 26, 2012] Topic 1 material is now complete on Moodle and appears as follows:
- Required Reading II (Available at AUK Library):
- I. Damaj , “ Programmable Logic Arrays ,” in Wiley Encyclopedia of Computer Science andEngineering , Benjamin Wah (Editor), Hoboken: John Wiley & Sons, Inc, New Jersey, 15 January 2008. V 4 P 2272 – 2280.
- I. Damaj , “ High-level Synthesis ,” in Wiley Encyclopedia of Computer Science and Engineering , Benjamin Wah (Editor), Hoboken: John Wiley & Sons, Inc, New Jersey, 15 January 2008. V 3 P 1495 – 1504.