Education of embedded systems: Design of a set-top box for streaming audio applications on C6711 and MSP430 devices
Marc Leeman, Francisco Barat, Vincenzo De Florio, Geert Deconinck · 2002
In this paper, a design seminar on embedded systems is described for fourth year students in the Multimedia and signal processing option at our electrical engineering department. The goal of this seminar is to confront the student with the design a real life example in order to ease up the adaptation of the universitary curriculum to what is expected by industry of a high level engineer. The project covers multiple expertise areas, programming techniques and languages, development tools and hardware platforms in order to develop a prototype of a set-top box with off-theshelf tools, hardware and software. The interdisciplinary character of this seminar combines multiple topics taught in courses in the application.