Citation
Edward A. Lee, Sanjit Seshia, Jeff C. Jensen. "Teaching Embedded Systems the Berkeley Way". Proceedings of the Workshop on Embedded Systems Education (WESE), 11, October, 2012; WESE is a part of Embedded Systems Week (ESWeek), Tampere, Finland.

Abstract
This paper describes an approach to teaching embedded systems from the perspective of cyber-physical systems. We place less emphasis on the mechanics of embedded system design and more on critical thinking about design technologies and on how the design of embedded software affects the behavior, safety, and reliability of cyberphysical systems. The course gives students experience with three distinct levels of design of embedded software, namely bare-iron programming (software that executes in the absence of an operating system), programming within a real-time operating system, and model-based design. In each case, students are taught to think critically about the technology, to probe deeply the mechanisms and abstractions that are provided, and to understand the consequences of chosen abstractions on overall system design. This paper describes a laboratory experience that first exposes students to the three levels of abstraction through a structured sequence of exercises, followed by an open-ended capstone project. Several example projects are described.

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  Edward A. Lee, Sanjit Seshia, Jeff C. Jensen. <a
  href="http://chess.eecs.berkeley.edu/pubs/937.html"
  >Teaching Embedded Systems the Berkeley Way</a>,
  Proceedings of the Workshop on Embedded Systems Education
  (WESE), 11, October, 2012; WESE is a part of Embedded
  Systems Week (ESWeek), Tampere, Finland.

• Plain text

  Edward A. Lee, Sanjit Seshia, Jeff C. Jensen. "Teaching
  Embedded Systems the Berkeley Way". Proceedings of the
  Workshop on Embedded Systems Education (WESE), 11, October,
  2012; WESE is a part of Embedded Systems Week (ESWeek),
  Tampere, Finland.

• BibTeX

  @inproceedings{LeeSeshiaJensen12_TeachingEmbeddedSystemsBerkeleyWay,
      author = {Edward A. Lee and Sanjit Seshia and Jeff C. Jensen},
      title = {Teaching Embedded Systems the Berkeley Way},
      booktitle = {Proceedings of the Workshop on Embedded Systems
                Education (WESE)},
      day = {11},
      month = {October},
      year = {2012},
      note = {WESE is a part of Embedded Systems Week (ESWeek),
                Tampere, Finland.},
      abstract = {This paper describes an approach to teaching
                embedded systems from the perspective of
                cyber-physical systems. We place less emphasis on
                the mechanics of embedded system design and more
                on critical thinking about design technologies and
                on how the design of embedded software affects the
                behavior, safety, and reliability of cyberphysical
                systems. The course gives students experience with
                three distinct levels of design of embedded
                software, namely bare-iron programming (software
                that executes in the absence of an operating
                system), programming within a real-time operating
                system, and model-based design. In each case,
                students are taught to think critically about the
                technology, to probe deeply the mechanisms and
                abstractions that are provided, and to understand
                the consequences of chosen abstractions on overall
                system design. This paper describes a laboratory
                experience that first exposes students to the
                three levels of abstraction through a structured
                sequence of exercises, followed by an open-ended
                capstone project. Several example projects are
                described.},
      URL = {http://chess.eecs.berkeley.edu/pubs/937.html}
  }
  

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