I would like to see how you have synthesized ideas, both from the expected reading of the text ‘Making Embedded Systems’, from the laboratory exercises, and from the class meetings we did have.

These will all be essay questions. No math will be necessary, unless you choose to use a formula or two as part of your answer (no primarily mathematical answers! I want discussion). What I am looking for is understanding of the big picture, of the general ideas presented in these chapters.

Procedure: Choose 8 topics, of any kind, from among those in Chapters 2 through 6 of our aforementioned textbook. You may choose no more than 2 topics from any given chapter, and you can choose whatever concepts you wish to discuss. (These topics probably should not be entire sections of the text – just a paragraph, or even a sentence, that ‘jumps out’ at you could form the core of your discussion).

This author does focus on commands specific to certain microprocessors, languages (specifically, Linux and assembler commands for the chosen processors), and programming environments. I do not want you to focus on these.

You should write roughly a half a page (200 words, maybe) on each of these topics. These should not be rote citation from the text (simple regurgitations, if you will). They should be in your own words, discussing the concept, the significance, and the useful application of the same.

What I am looking for is a measure of your understanding of a concept, and your ability to synthesize them into the design of an embedded system.