ECE 676 - Advanced Embedded System Design

(4 credits)

Design of high-speed reconfigurable embedded systems using both a microprocessor and an FPGA. Topics and exercises include designing and implementing an intelligent system using various microcontrollers, profiling and analyzing code for performance, designing and implementing special-purpose processors on an FPGA to work cooperatively with the microcontroller for significant performance gains, fuzzy logic for embedded systems, standards and interface issues between the microcontroller and FPGA-based system, and design for low power mobile systems. Project-oriented course. Offered in fall.

Prerequisite(s): Student must meet prerequisites (CSE/ECE 576 or CSE 670 or experience with VHDL/VERILOG and ECE/EE 570 or CSE 570 or experience with programming a microcontroller).

Course revisions made after the Graduate Catalog publication date will be posted in the Graduate Catalog Addendum.