Embedded Systems – Shape The World – UTAustinX
Build your own robots and arcade-style video games. Learn how electronic gadgets are designed, developed, and built in this hands-on course from UT Austin. Explore the fundamentals of circuit design and micro-controller programming, and discover how themodern, electronic world works.
What you’ll learn
- Understanding of embedded systems using modular design and abstraction
- C programming: considering both function and style
- How to build and test circuits with switches, LEDs, resistors, potentiometers, and liquid crystal displays
- Synchronizaztion of hardware and software input/output with switches, lights, sound, sensors. motors, and liquid crystal displays
- How to solve problems using a finite state machine
- Implementation of an I/O driver and multi-threaded programming using interrupts
- Debugging using oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, and software instrumentation
- How to read a data sheet
- How to construct a smart object and create a system as part of the Internet of Things