Information on individual educational components (ECTS-Course descriptions) per semester

  
Degree programme:Bachelor Mechatronics Fulltime
Type of degree:FH Bachelor´s Degree Programme
 Full-time
 Winter Semester 2025
  

Course unit titleEnergy Efficient Embedded Systems
Course unit code024506054205
Language of instructionEnglish
Type of course unit (compulsory, optional)Compulsory optional
Semester when the course unit is deliveredWinter Semester 2025
Teaching hours per week3
Year of study2025
Level of course unit (e.g. first, second or third cycle)First Cycle (Bachelor)
Number of ECTS credits allocated5
Name of lecturer(s)


Prerequisites and co-requisites
  • Circuit analysis (voltage, current, power)
  • Simple amplifier circuits (bipolar, MOSFET, operational amplifier)
  • Sensors and analogue / digital converters
  • Digital microcontroller circuits incl. simple programs (C, C++)
  • Digital interfaces - I2C, SPI, UART
Course content
  • General definitions of "embedded systems
  • Components of an embedded system
  • Semiconductor technologies for IoT systems (state of the art, energy efficient technologies, mixed signal structures, system on chip)
  • Circuit structures for low power applications
  • Power supply in IoT applications (power electronics, battery systems)
  • Energy harvesting technologies (methods, aspects of physical integration)
  • Communication technologies and energy efficiency (transmission methods and protocols, radio interface in IoT sensor technology)
  • Software design and energy consumption
  • Methods for IoT data transmission and processing
Learning outcomes

The students can

  • select the optimal technology for energy-saving embedded systems.
  • list best practice design for energy efficient IoT sensors.
  • sketch and dimension circuit structures for low power applications.
  • list and select energy harvesting technologies for a use case.
  • select the right communication technologies with regard to energy efficiency.
  • name and explain software methods that lead to energy-efficient processing.
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
  • Lecture
  • Case studies
Assessment methods and criteria

Written exam

Comment

Embedded systems permeate all aspects of our lives. This makes it all the more important for our mechatronics students to understand them and to classify them correctly with a technical analytical approach. Energy efficiency in many "Internet of Things" applications plays an important role here. The focus of the lecture is therefore also the consideration of "embedded systems" with regard to energy consumption.

 

Recommended or required reading

  • White, Elecia (2012): Making embedded systems: design patterns for great software. 1. ed. Beijing Köln: O’Reilly.

  • Hüning, Felix (2019): Embedded Systems für IoT. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer. Online im Internet: DOI: 10.1007/978-3-662-57901-5.
Mode of delivery (face-to-face, distance learning)

Face-to-face

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