CoE 165 S1 AY 2024-2025

CoE 165 - Computer Organization and Embedded Systems II

• Course Description: Advanced course on the modeling, design, and analysis of computational systems that interact with physical processes.
• Prerequisite: EEE 153 Computer Organization and Embedded Systems I
• Co-requisite: CoE 163 Computing Architectures and Algorithms
• Course Credit: 3 units (lecture)
• Course Goals:
  • To provide an understanding of models, analysis tools, and control for embedded systems operating in real time.
  • To teach students how to combine physical processes with computation.

Course Information

• Instructor: Louis P. Alarcon (louis.alarcon@eee...)
  • Consultation hours: Tuesdays and Thursdays, 2pm-3pm, room 409
• Schedule: Tuesdays, 7am - 10am
• Section: TQR
• Room: EEEI LC1

Annuoncements

• 8/20: Welcome to CoE165!

Class Schedule

Week	Date	Topic	Resources
1	8/20	Introduction Motivation for Cyber-Physical Systems Sensors and Actuators	Slides (pdf) Assignment 1
Model-Based Design
2	8/27	Model-Based Design Continuous Dynamics
3	9/3	Memory Architectures Input and Output
4	9/10	Modeling Modal Behavior
5	9/17	Discrete Dynamics
6	9/24	Extended and Timed Automata
7	10/1	Composition of State Machines Hierarchical State Machines
8	10/8	Specification and Temporal Logic: Comparing State Machines Reachability analysis
9	10/15	Midterm Exam
Resource Management
10	10/22	Multitasking
11	10/29	Operating Systems Microkernels
12	11/5	Scheduling Anomalies
13	11/12	Execution Time Analysis
Distributed Embedded Systems
	11/19	No Class
14	11/26	Synchronous/Reactive and Dataflow Models
15	12/3	Security for Embedded Systems Networked Embedded Systems

Grading

• Assignments: 50%
• Midterm Exam: 25%
  • October 15, 7am-10am, EEEI LC1
• Final Exam: 25%
  • During the finals week: December 11-17 (to be set)

Reference

• Lee, E. A., Seshia, S. A., Introduction to Embedded Systems, A Cyber-Physical Systems Approach, Second Edition, MIT Press, 2017.