Most students, even after taking microcomputer and embedded systems courses, do not understand the details and complexities of the business of interfacing PCs, SoCs, Intel Atom embedded systems, or DE2i-150 kit to external mobile devices, intelligent equipment, or simple sensors. Their simple mind-set is that connecting an external device to the computer system via USB for example would have the computer and the device somehow worked out to talk together, without thinking or knowing about the details of hand-shakes, electrical and data specifications, and protocols. This results in the situation that students cannot connect anything except a USB device with fully supported software which is compatible with the computer system. Outside of it is out of question. The objective of the course, therefore, is to cure the problem of under-preparedness in SoC interfacing and to equip students with core knowledge of computer buses and SoC interfacing with external devices. It also focuses on the practical coding experience of interfacing Intel Atom-based embedded system boards or DE2i-150 kits with external devices such as media, Ethernet, another controller, memory and storage, and 1- or 2- line or I2C devices.
EECE494 Special Topic: Computer Buses and SoC Interfacing.
This new course to be developed by the project will provide
students with fundamental understanding of computer buses and sensor
ports available in SoC or Intel’s Atom embedded systems or DE2i-150
kit in particular. The
course will also provide students with practical coding experiences
of connecting the SoC to external devices.
In learning aspects, students would get both the core
knowledge and the practice of features, specifications, and
protocols of the computer buses and sensor ports and their
interfacings.
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