Description

“Principle and Interface of MCU” is computer science (CS) course which comprehensively covers the hardware, software, and application design of the embedded MCU systems. It is one of the advanced CS compulsory courses offered in the first semester of the third year undergraduate study. The main topic of this course is the hardware and software components of embedded MCU systems, including system architecture, interface technology, embedded operating systems, and design of embedded applications. Through this course, student will learn the major steps of MCU system development, and how to design and analyze embedded MCU systems. Furthermore, by emphasize the integration of the knowledge in MCU system design and other related course, this course improves the students’ ability in engineering practice and innovation.

Prerequisites
Digital logic, Computer organization, C programming, Linux

Follow-on
Embedded system design project

Objective

This course follows the structure of ACM/IEEE Computing Curricula 2004 (CC2204) on embedded system course. According to the complexity and high integration of embedded MCU system, we select and optimize the related topics, and form a seamless combination of software-hardware knowledge system. Through this course, student will learn the major steps of MCU system development, and how to design and analyze embedded MCU systems. Furthermore, by emphasize the integration of the knowledge in MCU system design and other related course, this course improves the students’ ability in engineering practice and innovation. As a high-level undergraduate course, this course focuses on the advanced topics including software-hardware interface technology, hardware/software co-design, and embedded system design. The course experiment requires student to integrate the various knowledge from basic courses, and design a simple but complete embedded system application.