Units:

12

Description:

This course introduces the principles for designing distributed embedded systems with a mixture of heterogeneous network-connected resource-constrained devices. This course will address the new challenges designers face as embedded systems are connected forming large-scale networks that sense, monitor and control elements of the physical environment in real-time. This includes topics related to transducer hardware, operating systems, time synchronization, energy management, modeling, simulation, and security. We will study recent applications in the domain of safety-critical systems, smart grid technology, intelligent buildings, Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems used in manufacturing and automotive systems. The course will include a significant project component that gives students hands-on experience building systems that use current RTOSes on micro-controllers alongside Embedded Linux on application processors that span cloud, edge and device.

This course is crosslisted with 18-649. ECE graduate students will be prioritized for 18-649, and ECE undergraduate students will be prioritized for 18-449. Although students in 18-449 will share lectures with students in 18-649, students in 18-449 will receive distinct homework assignments, distinct programming projects, and distinct exams from the ones given to students in 18-649. Specifically, the homework assignments, programming projects, and exams that are given to the 18-649 students will be more challenging than those given to the 18-449 students.

Prerequisites: 18-349

Last Modified: 2024-09-19 9:23AM

Semesters offered:

• Spring 2024
• Fall 2022
• Fall 2015
• Fall 2014
• Fall 2013
• Fall 2012
• Fall 2011
• Spring 2011
• Spring 2010
• Spring 2009
• Spring 2008
• Spring 2007