Hardware/software Integrated Training on Embedded Systems

Embedded System Education has become an important part of information disciplines’ teaching programs, and attracted educators’ attention in China. To counter the deficiency of practice training in some graduates’ courses a new curriculum “Hardware/Software integrated design of embedded systems” is given at Tsinghua University. The course’s main contents, teaching activities’ arrangements, basic/research experiments, and a few kinds of embedded teaching experimental platforms are introduced. The merits and differences between the course and existing courses are indicated, and the necessity to build a powerful experimental environment for graduates to get practice skill is stressed.