Course syllabus
Course-PM
EEN090 Embedded control systems lp4 VT24 (7.5 hp)
The course is offered by the Department of Electrical Engineering
Contact details
Examiner and lecturer
Bengt Lennartson, phone: 031-772 3722, bengt.lennartson@chalmers.se
Teaching Assistant
Wenhao Lu, wenhaol@chalmers.se
Exam Office
Room EDIT 3342, studadm.e2@chalmers.se
Course purpose:
The aim of the course is to introduce modeling, specification, and analysis of embedded control systems. Embedded control systems are usually distributed systems and consist of different components interacting with each other. Moreover, they are usually complex and safety-critical. Thus, it is important to establish that system works correctly during the design phase.
After this course, the student should be able to:
1. Describe the general characterization of embedded and distributed systems.
2. Explain concepts related to distributed real-time systems, including concurrency, multi-tasking, multi-threads, and shared resources.
3. Describe challenges in real-time systems including deadlock and starvation, and possible solutions including scheduling, mutual exclusion, and critical sections.
4. Explain communication protocols for embedded systems.
The following concepts will be described at different levels in the course: task, critical regions, mutual exclusion and synchronization, deadlock, timing constraints ("soft/hard" systems), schedulability analysis for systems with static and dynamic task priorities, discrete event systems including verification, synthesis, and optimization.
Lecture and Exercise Program
Lecture or Exercise nr/
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Date, Room | Content |
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L1, Pw 1 |
Tuesday, March 19, 10-12, Jupiter122 |
Introduction, RTS Ch 1, |
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L2, Pw 1 |
Wednesday, March 20, 13-15, Svea118 |
Discrete event systems, DES Ch 3 pp.53-67, Ch 8 pp. 119-125. |
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E1, Pw 1 |
Thursday, March 21, 13-15, Jupiter122 |
Discrete event systems. |
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L3, Pw 2 |
Monday, March 25, 13-15, Jupiter122 |
Microcontrollers, RTS Ch 3, Multithreading, RTS Ch 6, |
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E2, Pw 2 |
Tuesday, March 26, 10-12, Jupiter122 |
Posix and multithreading. |
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L4, Pw 2 |
Wednesday, March 27, 13-15, Jupiter122 |
Scheduling, RTS Ch 7. |
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E3, Pw 3 |
Tuesday, April 9, 8-10, Jupiter121 |
Support Assignment 1. |
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E4, Pw 3 |
Thursday, April 11, 10-12, Jupiter122 |
Scheduling, RTS Ch 7. |
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L5, Pw 3 |
Friday, April 12, 10-12, Svea130 |
Worst-case execution time (WCET) analysis. |
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E5, Pw 4 |
Monday, April 15, 10-12, Jupiter122 |
Worst-case execution time (WCET) analysis. |
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L6, Pw 4 |
Monday, April 15, 13-15, Jupiter122 |
Petri nets, synchronization. |
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L7, Pw4 |
Wednesday, April 17, 13-15, Svea129 |
Mutual exclusion, semaphores |
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L8, Pw4 |
Thursday, April 18, 10-12 |
Optimization |
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L9, Pw5 |
Monday, April 22, 13-15, Svea130 |
Optimization |
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L10, Pw5 |
Tuesday, April 23, 8-10, Jupiter122 |
Petri net Synchronization |
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L11, Pw5 |
Wednesday, April 24, 15-17, Gamma |
Real-time operating system (RTOS) Inputs, outputs & communication |
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L12, Pw7 |
Monday, May 6, 13-15, Svea 118 |
Formal verification, temporal logic |
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E6, Pw7 |
Monday, May 6, 15-17, Svea 118 |
Support Assignment 3 |
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L13, Pw7 |
Tuesday, May 7, 10-12, Jupiter122 |
SCT |
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L14, Pw7 |
Wednesday, May 8, 13-15, Svea118 |
SCT |
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E7, Pw8 |
Monday, May 13, 15-17, Jupiter122 |
SCT |
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L15, Pw9 |
Monday, May 20, 13-15, Jupiter243 |
Summary |
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E8, Pw9 |
Monday, May 20, 15-17, Jupiter243 |
Old exam |
Home Assignments
| Submission date | Content | |
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A1, Pw 3 |
Tuesday, April 16 |
Posix and multithreading |
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A2, Pw 5 |
Thursday May 2 |
Optimization |
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A3, Pw 7 |
Friday, May 10 |
Kernel and FreeRTOS |
Course literature
D.W. Harder, J. Zarnett, V. Montaghami, and A. Giannikouris
A practical introduction to real-time systems for undergraduate engineering (RTS), see Files Literature.
B. Lennartson
Discrete Event Systems (DES), see Files Literature.
Changes made since the last occasion
Topics related to optimal scheduling will be extended in this course.
Learning objectives and syllabus
Learning objectives:
- Describe the general characterization of embedded and distributed systems.
- Explain concepts related to distributed real-time systems, including concurrency, multi-tasking, multi-threads, and shared resources.
- Describe challenges in real-time systems including deadlock and starvation, and possible solutions including scheduling, mutual exclusion, and critical sections.
- Explain communication protocols for embedded systems.
Link to the syllabus on Studieportalen Study plan
Examination form
The students are evaluated through a final written exam (4.5 hec) and a compulsory laboratory assignment (3.0 hec).
The final grade, according to the scale Fail (U) or Pass (3, 4, 5), is given based on the individual grades for the written exam.
There are three individual assignments in the course. Additional information regarding these assignments will later be found on the Assignment page.
Course representatives
The following students have been elected by the student administration to be course representatives in the course evaluation:
TIMEL alan.bakr22@gmail.com Alan Bakr
TIMEL erikfors@student.chalmers.se Erik Forsaeus
TIMEL contact.aleksandarjevdjenijevic@gmail.com Aleksandar Jevdjenijevic
TIMEL theanilsson1@live.se Thea Nilsson
TIMEL alfredwidsjon@gmail.com Alfred Widsjön
To be a study representative means that you will be involved in the course evaluation process. See more details at https://www.chalmers.se/en/education/your-studies/plan-and-conduct-your-studies/course-evaluation/
Course summary:
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