Table of contents

The course is connected to the following study programs

  • Computer Engineering, Bachelor's Programmme
  • Electronics and Electrical Engineering, Bachelor's Programme

Teaching language

Norwegian

Learning outcomes

On successful completion of the course the students should:

  • be able to explain the components of a microcontroller
  • be able to explain the architecture of an operating system
  • know the components of a real time system
  • be able to explain how a compiler works

Contents

Introduction to what the main components of a micro controller are, and how development on such hardware is done. Topics covered are practical use of CPU, IO, communication and storage.

Teaching and learning methods

Lectures and laboratory exercises. Laboratory exercises takes place in a computer laboratory. An engineer, teaching assistant and/ or course teacher will be present. Lectures will be given in programming and use of relevant software. Students develop their own software to solve the given exercises.

Examinations

Group project. Graded assessment. Summary of requirements of the project will be provided in the LMS.

Student evaluation

The person responsible for the course decides, in cooperation with student representative, the form of student evaluation and whether the course is to have a midway or end of course evaluation in accordance with the quality system for education, chapter 4.1.

Reduction of Credits

This course’s contents overlap with the following courses. A reduction of credits will occur if one of these courses is taken in addition:

Course Reduction of Credits
DAT111 – Basic C programming. 5
DAT112 – Operating Systems and Microprocessors. 5
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