The aim of the course is to provide students with the skills and metodologies necessary for the design of systems dedicated to specific applications. The presence of such systems, often "invisible" compared to general-purpose systems such as PCs, is increasing and covers approximately two-thirds of the market of processor-based systems. Examples of such systems are the biomedical equipment units, the automotive systems, equipment for telecom, industrial control systems, set-top-box and a large part of consumer electronics.

The design of such systems requires coordinated use of different skills and technologies in order to identify the best solution under a large variety of aspects such as flexibility, standardization, cost, size, power dissipation and performance, the methodological aspects related to the flow of the design, and so on.

The course in actually split on two complementary courses, with the goal to provide a comprehensive view of the best practices in designing an embedded systems.

The insights related to software development targeting real-time embedded applications is the main object of the course of Advanced  Operating Systems, which develops in parallel and complement the course in Embedded Systems 1 whose main focus is on systematizing the skills on hardware architectures, communication and basic real-time software  and energy/powe optimization.

The course will offer job placements and selected topics to be addressed for the development of Ms thesis/PhDs.

Following this course students will get a comprehensive view on how to design embedded applications, from several perspectives: selection of the technologies, planning and management of a product development, hardware and software standards and design strategies, power and energy optimization.

The 10 CFU integrated course on embedded systems is split in two separate courses which are running in parallel.

- Embedded Systems 1

- Advanced Operating Systems

Possible synergies, especially for projects, can be discussed with the lecturer.

For the detailed program of the course please refer to that of the two courses.

It is foreseen the presence of some seminas with industries to propose stages and presentation of real-world technologies

Basic knowledge (Bachelor level) of computer architecture, operating systems and high-level programming

The exams will follows the official rules of the Politecnico di Milano and more information can be found on the web site of the lecturer. During the course it will be presented a set of possible topics for projects, whose evaluation will be part of the final score.

there are alternative books in english

freely available on the web

freely available on the web

available on the web