EEE3074W: Embedded Systems Lab Pracs and The Project

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Scope: This page provides an overview of the laboratory practicals and the project for this course..
 

Introduction

The practical aspect of this course involves six laboratory practical assignments, which you can work on as either a team of two, or individually. The pracs increase in complexity, but then your abilities also increase, so the plan is that the final practical feels just slightly more demanding than the first one (which, don't be mistaken, will be somewhat of a challenge in it self to most students). A single project runs in parallel with lectures and labs, and starts, at least in a "back of your mind" level, right at the start of the course. The project is broken into multiple milestones, each of which need to be submitted by a specific due date. The sections below provide more detail.

Laboratory Practicals

The laboratory practicals are intended to provide students with new capabilities to solve implementation problems encountered during project work. The practicals can be done individually, or in groups of two. The lab facilitator will ask random individuals to demonstrate how certain problems are solved; this tactic is used to discourage cheating. The currently planned laboratory practicals (as of this writing, January 2006), are described in Table 1; the 7th practical is optional. Please see EEE3074W Details for more information.

Table1: Brief description of laboratory practicals.

The Project

The project runs for almost the entire length of the course, and it is divided into three main parts, each part building on the previous part. Table 2 describes the parts of the project, click on the links in the left column to read about a certain part of the project. For more information please see The Project and EEE3074W Details.

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