ECE 443 - Midterm Exam Topics List

(Lectures, HW, Projects, Reading). Open notes/closed "book". No electronic devices permitted.

FreeRTOS

• Basic features and components
• How to utilize effectively
• How to use (or abuse!) in complex embedded systems
• Embedded system instrumentation and performance profiling

System Bus (SMBus)

• Basic protocol
• Primary differences from I2C
• PEC calculation
• IR Sensor

Controller Area Network (CAN)

• Basics
• Error conditions
• PIC32 CAN support
  
• Message filtering
• FIFO operation