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• Spring 2016 Wait List: Thank you for your interest in this course. We know there is a wait list, and we plan to admit at least some students from the wait list. Last year everyone got in, but we can't guarantee that. If you are on the wait list, come to class the first day and we'll let you know what the situation is. If you're a grad student we usually have to wait until the first day of class to admit you even if there is space due to departmental policies ensuring undergrads can get in. Students who physically attend class and sign in on the roster will be given preference for admission. Of those students, we are required to follow the standard departmental admission priority, which usually deviates from your position number on the wait list. An additional consideration is whether you are available for a lab section that has space. So, bottom line, please be patient, flexible in your lab section, and come to class the first week.

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• Reference Materials page
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• Lab Demo Schedule
• Office Hour Schedule
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Required Hardware: You will be loaned a microcontroller board for the course based on the Freescale MC9S12C128 processor (one per student) and a prototype board (one per team). You must return these boards at the end of the semester, but they will be available if you choose to take 18-549 in a later semester. Required Text: Valvano, Embedded Microcomputer Systems: Real Time Interfacing, 2nd Edition, ISBN 0534551629. Note that this is an old 2006 edition that you will probably want to buy as an inexpensive used book. Do not buy the newer 3rd edition -- it leaves out significant important material.

Supplemental Text: Koopman, Better Embedded System Software, ISBN-13: 978-0-9844490-0-2. The material in this book will help you understand some of the key concepts, but is not testable material. This book is the primary text used for 18-649.

Handouts are provided in class. Lecture materials are only available in printed form, and is not available electronically. Note that dates in table below are subject to change if box is gray.

Notes:

• Many lectures have a corresponding lab assignment, which includes both homework and in-lab activities.
• Dates and topics are subject to change; however we will do everything reasonably possible to keep the two exam dates from changing.
• For advanced topics, see 18-649 and my Blog.

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Office Hour Schedule

Please see blackboard for office hour & lab staffing schedule schedule

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Lab demo schedule

Subject to change. Lab Demos are due during scheduled demo slot.
All hand-ins are due at 9:00 PM US Eastern Time unless otherwise noted. (Prelab early bonus cutoff is 1:30 PM ET.)

(*See blackboard for Lab 11 prelab, demo & writeup information)

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