Description

These lecture series are dedicated in communicating the fundamentals of Embedded and Real-Time Systems, with emphasis on their agricultural exploitation.
The areas being covered include but are not limited to:
Basic digital and analog circuit principles, basic microcontroller architectures, the role of registers, memory, interrupts. Arduino and raspberry pi boards as platforms for application development, experimentation and learning. Special hardware acceleration modules. Linux shell commands and script programming, python and C exemplification. Interconnection between different systems, sensors and actuators. Exploitation of tablet and smart phone devices. Performance evaluation measurements.

WEEK	Lectures
1ST	Analog and digital electronic circuits (I)
2ND	Analog and digital electronic circuits (II)
3RD	Microcontroller architectures and functions (I)
4TH	Microcontroller architectures and functions (II)
5TH	Arduino and  raspberry pi boards as basis for experimentation
6TH	Connecting specific-purpose hardware modules on the main unit
7TH	C and python languages as tools for embedded system programming
8TH	Operating systems for embedded and real-time environments
9TH	Asynchronous events and interrupt handling
10TH	Synchronization and time management
11TH	Tablets and smart phones for facilitating the interaction with the embedded devices
12TH	Measurement and performance evaluation techniques
13TH	Field experimentation paradigm with emphasis on agricultural applications

Exams, marking and student assessment

A combination of written exams and project assignments during the semester