1. Comprehension of the work principles and the structure of computers and ability to use these knowledge and skills for developing efficient programming systems including mobile, embedded and specialized ones.
2. Ability to show a deep knowledge on the work principles and the structure of different computers required for developing embedded, mobile and other specialized programming systems;
3. Skills on using the knowledge on the work principles and the structure of computers for developing firmware, mobile applications and other specialized software;
4. Ability to identify, formulate and solve typical problems;
5. Ability to apply knowledge to solving problems in practice.

Prerequisites:
Fundamentals of Electronics
Fundamentals of Programming
Operating Systems

Corequisites:
Digital Signal Processing

Microcontrollers: application domain, design, functional blocks, IDEs. Libraries CMSIS and SPL. Handling interrupts in STMicroelectronics’ microcontrollers. Real-time operating system CMSIS-RTOS RTX. GPIO. Clock frequency and timers. Common interfaces in embedded systems. Interfaces: concept, types and features. Interface SPI. Interface I2C. Interfaces UART, RS-232, RS-485. ADC and DAC. Types of memory in embedded systems. Work with a scatter-file and memory mapping. EEPROM. Flash-SPI. Ensuring firmware reliability. Standard MISRA-C:2004.

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4. Болл С. Аналоговые интерфейсы микроконтроллеров. – Додэка, 2007. – 360 с.

Written reports on labs (40%)
Exam: written and spoken (60%)