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Courses Handbook 2015

This handbook contains information on courses and components (majors, minors, streams and units) at Curtin in 2015.
Information for the previous year's courses and units is available at Courses Handbook 2014.

CMPE3001 (v.1) Embedded Systems Engineering

Area: Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Credits: 25.0
Contact Hours: 4.0
TUITION PATTERNS: The tuition pattern provides details of the types of classes and their duration. This is to be used as a guide only. Precise information is included in the unit outline.
Lecture: 1 x 2 Hours Weekly
Computer Laboratory: 1 x 3 Hours Fortnightly
Tutorial: 1 x 1 Hours Fortnightly
Equivalent(s): 12855 (v.4) Embedded Systems Engineering 301 or any previous version
Prerequisite(s):     308768 (v.1) Foundations of Digital Design 201 or any previous version
    OR
    12702 (v.3) Hardware Fundamentals 101 or any previous version
    OR
    CMPE2001 (v.1) Foundations of Digital Design or any previous version
    OR
    CMPE1000 (v.1) Hardware Fundamentals or any previous version
AND
    313690 (v.1) Microcomputers 204 or any previous version
    OR
    308824 (v.1) Mechatronic Project 234 or any previous version
    OR
    2894 (v.4) Microcomputers 202 or any previous version
    OR
    Admission into 314674 (v.1) Master of Engineering Science (Electrical Engineering) or any previous version
    OR
    CMPE2003 (v.1) Microcomputers or any previous version
    OR
    MXEN2002 (v.1) Mechatronics Microcontroller Project or any previous version
    OR
    Admission into MC-ELENGR (v.1) Master of Engineering Science (Electrical Engineering) or any previous version
UNIT REFERENCES, TEXTS, OUTCOMES AND ASSESSMENT DETAILS: The most up-to-date information about unit references, texts and outcomes, will be provided in the unit outline.
Syllabus: Development tools, emulators, simulators and analysers. Interrupt service routines and drivers. Real world interfaces, Scaling, Offset. Finite state software design. Fixed point arithmetic and trigonometric algorithms. Object-oriented design for embedded systems. Specialised class libraries. High level language programming in an embedded context (MISRA C) Common peripherals, Analogue-to-Digital Converters, Digital-to-Analogue Converters, timers, communications interfaces.
Field of Education: 031305 Computer Engineering
Result Type: Grade/Mark


Availability

Year Location Period Internal Partially Online Internal Area External Central External Fully Online
2015 Bentley Campus Semester 1 Y        
2015 Miri Sarawak Campus Semester 1 Y        
2015 Miri Sarawak Campus Semester 2 Y        
2015 Sri Lanka Inst Info Tech Semester 1 Y        

Area External refers to external course/units run by the School or Department or offered by research.

Central External refers to external and online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area

Partially Online Internal refers to some (a portion of) learning provided by interacting with or downloading pre-packaged material from the Internet but with regular and ongoing participation with a face-to-face component retained. Excludes partially online internal course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External

Fully Online refers to the main (larger portion of) mode of learning provided via Internet interaction (including the downloading of pre-packaged material on the Internet). Excludes online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External


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