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COE718
B.Eng. 4th Year
Lecture: DSQ14/CAR06                         Lab: ENG411
Gul N. Khan

  Electrical, Computer and Biomedical Engineering
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  COE718 - Official Course Outline and information details are available
  COE-718 Course Management Fall 2025

  There will be no lab session in the first week of Fall 2025.
  First Lab will be organized in the 2nd week of Fall 2025 Semester,
  starting on Monday Sept. 8, 2025.

  1. Lab1: Introduction to uVision (A Tutorial)   
  2. Lab2: Exploring ARM Cortex M3 Features 
  3. Lab3a: RTX based Task Scheduling
  4. Lab3b: Real-time Scheduling for Multi-threaded Applications
  5. Lab4: Real-time Scheduling and Priority Inversion 

   Course Project Document  is available
  There is a 5% per day penalty for late submissions of labs and project. 
 
 Lecture notes on  Introduction to Real-time and Embedded Systems.
 Lecture notes on  ARM7, Cortex M3 Programming.
 Lecture notes on  Embedded CPUs ARM7, Cortex-M3.

 Lecture notes on  Concurrency, Multitasking and RTX.
 Lecture notes on  Real-time Scheduling.  
 
  Lecture notes on  Hardware Software Co-design    
  Lecture notes on  Fault-tolerant Embedded Systems   
 
  Instructors: 
  Dr. Gul N. Khan, Professor - Computer Engineering 
  Consultation: Wednesday 11:45AM-1:00PM or by Appointment, Office: ENG448, Sections:1 to 6
  E-mail: gnkhan@torontomu.ca   URL: http://www.ecb.torontomu.ca/~gnkhan

  Dr. Arghavan Asad, E-mail: arghavan.asad@torontomu.ca, Sections: 7, 8 and 10

  Lab Instructors/Supervisors:   
       1. Wenhao (David) Wu, e-mail: wenhao.wu@torontomu.ca   Lab Sections 5 and 8.
       2. Karan Hayer, e-mail: k1hayer@torontomu.ca, Lab Sections 1, 2, 7 and 10. 
       3. Divya Sebastian Arrackal, e-mail: divya.a@torontomu.ca, Lab Sections 3, 4 and 6. 

   Course Evaluation and Marking Scheme
  1. Labs/Project (35%)
      Labs: 20%
      Course Project: 15%
  2. Theory (65%)
      Midterm Exam:  25% (tentatively October 15, 2025)
      Final Exam:  40%
  To pass the course students need to pass Theory (Midterm/Final Exams) and Lab (Labs/Project) components.

  Midterm exam is scheduled on October 15, 2025 at 8:15AM, in the lecture time slot.
  The exam will be of 70 Minutes duration.
  Midterm exam will cover Lectures 1, 2, 3, 4  & part of Lecture 5 on Real time Scheduling (slides x-y)
  and Labs 1, 2 & 3.
  ARM Inst. Set - Reference Card is allowed. Bring your own hard copy in the Midterm exam.

  Final exam is scheduled in December 2025.
  The exam will be of 120 Minutes duration & it will cover all the Lectures, Labs and Project Material.
  However, 70-75% questions will be from the material covered around or after the midterm exam.
 
 Please Note:
   1. There is 5% per day penalty for late submission of the labs and project
   2. All of the required course specific written reports including labs, projects and assignments will be assessed not  
       only on their technical or academic merit, but also on the communication skills of the author as exhibited
       through these reports.
   3. Midterm exam will also cover the corresponding laboratories to enforce individual lab attempts.