Part I – Module 1-6 (total of 6 modules)
1. Megatrends and driving forces in IT and their linkages to embedded systems
2. Overview of embedded systems including characteristics, attributes, programming languages, processor technologies, and design challenges
3. Overview of real-time systems including common characteristics, interaction with hardware devices, and embedded systems design process
4. Current examples of embedded systems, structure of an embedded program, best practices, and typical code examples
5. Block design of embedded systems, optimal mix of software and hardware required to build a system, guide to selection of processors and peripherals, signal processing, and buffer design
6. DSP fundamentals and architecture and additional material to deepen understanding of embedded system software development

Part II - Modules 7-11 (total of 5 modules)
7. Overview of Round Robin scheduling, Function Queues, brief introduction to Real-time Systems, and coding examples to strengthen understanding
8. Overview of Super Loop Architecture, additional characteristics of Real Time Operating systems (RTOS), and basic elements of Hardware Abstraction Layer (HAL)
9. Overview of task management, reentrancy, and use of semaphores
10. Additional details on scheduling and periodic tasks,
11. Rate monotonic analysis, and provide a Motor Control example

Part III Modules 12-14 (total of 3 modules)
12. Priority Inversion, fundamentals of optimization in embedded systems including: C code, importance of physical architecture, power, memory and cache
13. Impact of compilers in optimization, techniques to use compiler effectively including optimization levels, intrinsics, cross correlation, pragmas, data alignment
14. Using parallel ALU effectively including Partial Summation, Loop Unrolling, Software Pipelining, Multisampling, effective use of pointers, best practices
- Case study to deepen understanding of embedded systems development