Embedded Systems Design and Debugging

Course

This course will cover processing that is triggered by interrupts, as well as the basics of how to design and debug an embedded system. You will finish with a project to create an embedded voltmeter.

Beginner

1 week

Completion Certificate

Last Updated April 30, 2024

Skills you'll learn:

Debugging Embedded Systems • Interrupt Handling

Prerequisites:

Embedded Systems and Robotics Fluency • Basic Python

Course Lessons

Lesson 1

Interrupt Triggered Processing

This lesson provides a deeper understanding of how interrupts function in embedded systems as well as how they can be used to process events.

Lesson 2

Embedded System Design

Good design always precedes good implementation. In this lesson some fundamental guidelines of design will be discussed and applied to system and subsystem design.

Lesson 3

Debugging Embedded Systems

This lesson discusses several different ways engineers commonly approach discovering and resolving issues in embedded systems, including LED debugging, logging, and the use of a debugger.

Taught By The Best

Adam St. Amand

Senior Software Engineer at Amazon

Adam St. Amand is a senior software engineer at Amazon working on Project Kuiper, where he's helped develop satellite flight software, terrestrial terminals, as well as mobile receivers for aeronautical applications. Previously he worked at NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab as a flight software engineer for the Europa Clipper mission. He graduated from the University of Colorado, Boulder.

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