Notes

Lectures are being recorded; see side-bar for link.

Intro to Embedded

• #1 - Welcome or in colour
  • Intro video to Zen Cape and hardware kit (from a previous offering, but still mostly applicable)
• #2 - Care and feeding instructions or in colour
• #3 - Development Environment or in colour
  • In class example program and makefile
  • Suggested tutorial for the command line
  • Videos on setting up a VM:
    Installing VMWare Player and Debian VM
    Configuring a VMWare Player's virtual machine

Building Software & C

• #4 - Building software (Make and CMake) or in colour
  • Starter CMake project for assignments
  • Make and CMake tutorials
    • Makefile tutorial - Great introduction to Makefiles
    • How to Use CMake,
    • Introduction to CMake by Example
    • CMake Tutorial.
  • [NEW] Lecture recording Jan 17; Passcode: awesome
• #5 - C programming or in colour
  • In class C programming examples
  • Optional videos on C programming (in Eclipse) by Br. Brian; useful if new to C:
    C Basics: Basics, functions, prototypes, and constants
    C Modules: Multiple files in a project, including "private" functions (static)
    Eclipse basics: Importing an existing makefile program
• Academic Honesty
  • Academic Honesty or in colour

Linux Programming

• #6 - Linux programming or in colour
  • In class Linux programming examples
  • YouTube videos on Linux programming (by Brian)
    • Processes (Fork & Exec)
      fork(): Create a process
      exec(): Replace current program with another
      fork() and exec()
    • Threads (pthreads)
      #1-Introduction: Create a single thread
      #2-Multiple threads: Passing data in/out using a struct with numerous threads
      #3-Dynamic memory: Passing data in/out of thread function using dynamically allocated memory
    • Synchronization
      Synchronization using mutex

PWL & Noise

• #7 - Voltage, A2D, Piecewise linear, & Noise or in colour

Debugging & Profiling

• #8 - Debugging w/ GDB & VS Code or in colour
  • [BEFORE LECTURE] Watch recoded presentation of slides (32 minutes)
  • Debugging guide covers how use GDB and VS Code for graphical debugging
  • Examples code for debugging
  • Videos
    GDB Cross Debugging
    GDB Cross Debugging seg faults
    Graphical cross debugging with Eclipse
    Dynamic memory debugging using valgrind tool
• #8.5 - Profiling or in colour
  • Examples code for mtrace and profiling
• #9 - Linux file system or in colour

Electronics

• #11 - Electronics or in colour

Embedded Webserver

• #10 - Node.js or in colour
  • Pre-recorded videos
    • Part 1: Static files (34 minutes)
    • Part 2: Dynamic interactions (28 minutes)
  • See Node.js in Action (2nd ed) book via SFU Library online for guide to Node.js
  • Node.js examples [Updated Feb 9 2023]
    Note: Makefile will deploy to public folder too!
• As3 PCM Discussion as .png or as .svg - Screenshot of a previous offering!
  • Previous year's discussion about PCM audio (some details may not be 100% the same)

PRU

• #15.0 - PRU or in colour
  • Sample PRU Sample Code (zip file)
  • Note that the pru_14SegFun example from the PRU guide is repeated in the 15-PRU-GPIO.zip file.
  • See guides page for PRU guide.
• #15.1 - PRU Memory or in colour
  • Sample PRU Code for shared memory (zip file) (same as code for 15.1 slides).
• #15.2 - NeoPixel or in colour

Bit Twiddle

• #13 - Bit Twiddling or in colour
  • Book appendix describing Bitwise operations (PDF)

Kernel

• March 20 & March 22: No lecture; the following videos are uploaded instead.
• #12.1 - Kernel intro. or in colour
  • Video of slides (30m)
  • Driver sample code: You may use any/all of this code in your assignment
  • User-space test app for reading files with a specific buffer size
• #12.2 - Driver intro. or in colour
  • Video of slides (24m)
  • Linux kernel driver creation guide
• #12.3 - Misc driver or in colour
  • Video of slides - Part 1 (30m)
  • Video of coding read routine (13m)
  • Video of slides - Part 2 (23m) - (Code window clipped for part)
• #12.4 - Kernel LEDs or in colour

Real-time

• #17 - Real-time or in colour
  • [PLEASE WATCH] Previous semester lecture recordings
    Part 1: Slides 1-11 (45m)
    Part 2: Slides 12+ (30m)
• #19 - Scheduling or in colour
  • Apr 5 Lecture Recording: Passcode: awesome

FMEA

• FMEA notes or in colour
  • FMEA spreadsheet template, and FMEA ratings (from here)
  • Not on Quiz 4.

systemd, & Watchdog (May skip)

• #16 - systemd and Watchdog or in colour
  • Sample systemd config file and watchdog example
  • Not on Quiz 4.