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Georgia Institute of Technology

Embedded Systems

Georgia Institute of Technology via Udacity

Overview

In the 21st century, embedded systems are the systems of future with cellular phones, smart-phones, tablets becoming the dominant platforms for computing and communication. The ubiquity of information and the associated need for the computation that accompanies it is driving this revolution only to be accelerated by the new paradigms such as the Internet-of-Things (IoT). These platforms are clearly very different in terms of their processing requirements which are very unique: real-time needs, high performance but at low energy, compact-code and data segments, and most importantly ever changing software stack. Such unique requirements have led to a complete redesign and reinvention of the both hardware and the software stack from ground up, for example, brand new processors such as ARM, DSPs, network processors were invented all the way up to new virtual machines such as Dalvik, new operating systems such as Android and new programming models and compiler optimizations.

Syllabus

  • Embedded Processor Architectures
    • Instruction-Level Parallelism,Design of Instruction Set Architectures,Embedded Micro-architectures
  • Software Optimizations
    • Compiler Phases,Register Allocation Foundation,Register Allocation for Embedded Processors
  • Advanced Optimizations
    • Data Layouts for Embedded Processors,Data and Code Compaction,Network Processors

Taught by

Santosh Pande and Catherine Gamboa

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