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COURSE INFORMATION

Course Code	Course Title	L+P Hour	Semester	ECTS
MCTE 523	EMBEDDED SYSTEM PROGRAMMING	3 + 0	2nd Semester	7,5

COURSE DESCRIPTION

Course Level	Master's Degree
Course Type	Elective
Course Objective	The aim of this course is to provide students with the knowledge and skills required to perform register-level programming on ARM Cortex-M-based microcontrollers, develop peripheral device drivers independently of hardware abstraction layers, and design reliable, modular, and reusable software architectures for embedded systems.
Course Content	Development environment setup for embedded systems, microcontroller block diagrams and memory maps, Device-Specific Header File architecture, register-level programming, the volatile keyword, GPIO peripheral register structures, bit-level operations, RCC configuration, GPIO driver development, GPIO Application Programming Interface (API) design, interrupt-driven GPIO applications, driver development for SPI, USART, and I²C peripherals, and embedded system design projects.
Prerequisites	No the prerequisite of lesson.
Corequisite	No the corequisite of lesson.

COURSE LEARNING OUTCOMES

1	Analyze the memory map, register organization, and hardware architecture of microcontrollers and perform register-level programming.
2	Develop Device-Specific Header Files, define peripheral register structures, and implement low-level hardware access.
3	Design, implement, and test GPIO device drivers and Application Programming Interfaces (APIs).
4	Develop, validate, and integrate modular drivers for SPI, USART, and I²C communication peripherals into embedded system applications.
5	Develop real-time embedded applications using interrupt mechanisms, perform debugging procedures, and evaluate system performance.
6	Design modular, maintainable, and reusable embedded software architectures to develop professional engineering solutions.

COURSE'S CONTRIBUTION TO PROGRAM

	PO 01	PO 02	PO 03	PO 04	PO 05	PO 06	PO 07	PO 08	PO 09	PO 10	PO 11	PO 12
LO 001	5	5	3	3	1	1	2	4	2	3	3	1
LO 002	5	5	4	3	2	2	2	5	2	4	4	1
LO 003	4	5	5	4	2	2	2	5	2	4	5	1
LO 004	4	5	5	4	3	2	3	5	2	4	5	1
LO 005	4	5	4	5	3	3	3	4	3	5	4	1
LO 006	3	4	5	4	3	3	5	5	3	4	5	2
Sub Total	25	29	26	23	14	13	17	28	14	24	26	7
Contribution	4	5	4	4	2	2	3	5	2	4	4	1

ECTS ALLOCATED BASED ON STUDENT WORKLOAD BY THE COURSE DESCRIPTION

Activities	Quantity	Duration (Hour)	Total Work Load (Hour)
Course Duration (14 weeks/theoric+practical)	14	3	42
Mid-terms	1	75	75
Final examination	1	78	78
Total Work Load ECTS Credit of the Course			195 7,5

COURSE DETAILS

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	Course Term	No	Instructors
Details	2025-2026 Spring	1	ARMAĞAN BOZKURT

Course Details

Course Code	Course Title	L+P Hour	Course Code	Language Of Instruction	Course Semester	Mode of Delivery
MCTE 523	EMBEDDED SYSTEM PROGRAMMING	3 + 0	1	Turkish	2025-2026 Spring	Face to Face

Course Coordinator	E-Mail	Phone Number	Course Location	Attendance
Asts. Prof. Dr. ARMAĞAN BOZKURT	armbozkurt@pau.edu.tr		TEK A0209	%

Goals		The aim of this course is to provide students with the knowledge and skills required to perform register-level programming on ARM Cortex-M-based microcontrollers, develop peripheral device drivers independently of hardware abstraction layers, and design reliable, modular, and reusable software architectures for embedded systems.
Content		Development environment setup for embedded systems, microcontroller block diagrams and memory maps, Device-Specific Header File architecture, register-level programming, the volatile keyword, GPIO peripheral register structures, bit-level operations, RCC configuration, GPIO driver development, GPIO Application Programming Interface (API) design, interrupt-driven GPIO applications, driver development for SPI, USART, and I²C peripherals, and embedded system design projects.

Topics

Weeks	Topics
1	Course introduction and installation of necessary software.
2	The importance of microcontroller block diagram reading and memory map structure.
3	The concept of Device Specific Header files and their creation.
4	Introduction to coding with Device Specific Header files.
5	Examination of the volatile structure. Creation of the GPIO peripheral register structure.
6	Bitwise operators, Reset and Clock Control register structure definition. GPIO Clock enable macros.
7	GPIO Driver Development - Header and source files.
8	Algorithms and Coding of GPIO Driver API Structures.
9	GPIO Interrupt Applications.
10	GPIO Interrupt Applications.
11	SPI driver development and APIs.
12	USART driver development applications.
13	I2C driver development applications.
14	Project presentations.

Materials

Materials are not specified.

Resources

Course Assessment

Assesment Methods	Percentage (%)	Assesment Methods Title
Final Exam	50	Final Exam
Midterm Exam	50	Midterm Exam

L+P: Lecture and Practice
PQ: Program Learning Outcomes
LO: Course Learning Outcomes

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