ECE 424 Embedded Systems Design Lecture 1 Course

ECE 424 Embedded Systems Design Lecture 1: Course Overview & Administrative Details Ning Weng Friday, August 17, 2012

Welcome Aboard • Who am I? ─ Ning Weng, Associate Professor in ECE ─ Office: Engineering E 119 ─ Email: nweng@siu. edu • Teaching: ─ Data Communication ─ Networking Processing Systems ─ Embedded Systems Design • Research interests: ─ Embedded System Security, Computer Networks • Tell us who you are ─ In 1 minute Ning Weng ECE 424 2

What is Embedded? An Embedded system ─is a differentiated compute platform ─is either invisible, being part of a larger infrastructure, or predetermined to expose limited capabilities in deference to a dominant usage. Ning Weng ECE 424 3

Embedded Applications Ning Weng ECE 424 4

What this class is about § Embedded Systems Design and Optimization § § Fundamental knowledge on platform and processor architecture, os, networking, security, power and etc. Hands-on experience to build a embedded application. • What you can expect to get out of it § § Ning Weng A better understanding of different integral components of modern embedded systems A better way of thinking about system building ECE 424 5

Embedded Industries “Ideal Graduate”

• Now let us focus on Administrative details Ning Weng ECE 424 8

For Next Class • Get textbook • Read Chapters 1 Ning Weng ECE 424 9