Review of computer architecture; microcontrollers and their instruction sets; interfacing using common input/output devices, debugging and other software engineering practices, strategies for interrupt handling and bus arbitration; Interfacing using a high level language; software and hardware optimizations to achieve real time operations; number representations; real time operating systems; DSP co-processors and microcontrollers; Embedded real-time applications.
This course may not be repeated for credit.

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This course will be offered next in Fall 2010.