Electrical & Computer Engin 535 - NetworkedEmbeddedSystDes

This course introduces the students to the design of embedded systems with a focus in emerging cyber-physical systems and internet of things applications such as health care, connected vehicles, and augmented/virtual reality. This course presents the unique capabilities of embedded technologies, and takes a holistic approach to design end-to-end systems. These systems span various thrusts that cut across both horizontal and vertical architectural layers. Focused horizontal thrusts are, 1) hardware platforms for emerging applications at the edge, 2) software for bare-metal platforms, and embedded OS 3) network-based coordination for distributed entities and 4) cloud-based services for compute-intensive tasks. It also dives into details of vertical thrusts cutting across all layers such as security-aware design, learning based modeling, and resource optimizations in current systems. Finally, the course explores system and security issues that arise with a human-in-the-loop of embedded systems design. Prior coursework on ECE 231 - Introduction to Embedded Systems or equivalent and ECE 122 - Introduction to Programming for ECE will be beneficial.

E&C-ENG 122 and 231 Prerequisites: E&C-ENG 231 or an equivalent course on Embedded Systems, and E&C-ENG 122 or an equivalent course on Programming.