Courses
SYSC 3310 (Winter 2019, Fall 2019) – Introduction to Real Time Systems
Principles of event-driven systems. Microcontroller organization. Development of embedded applications. Programming external interfaces, programmable timer. Input/output methods: polling, interrupts. Real-time issues: concurrency, mutual exclusion, buffering. Introduction to concurrent processes.
厂驰厂颁听4310聽(Fall 2019) –聽Computer Systems Architecture
Evolution of computer systems architecture to improve performance. Memory hierarchy, hardware accelerators. Instruction level parallelism, pipelining, vector processing, superscalar, out-of-order execution, speculative execution. Thread level parallelism, multi-core, many-core, heterogeneous systems. Processor-level interconnect bus, non-uniform memory access. Application-oriented architectures. Virtualization.
SYSC 5807 – Section Z (Winter 2020) – Hardware/Software Co-Design
Principles of hardware/software co-design. Power, performance and size trade-offs. Top-down design using High Level Synthesis. Bottom-up design using Hardware Description Languages. Softcore processors on FPGAs and associated toolchain porting.
Senior projects (Capstone) supervision
Robotic mobile printer
Development of a robotic mobile printer, capable of spray-painting an uploaded image on the floor.
Robotic crate carrier based on 3D models
Development of a sensorless robotic system capable of moving crates, based on a software 3D representation of the physical world.
Robotic guitar player
Development of a robotic guitar player, capable of performing pre-recorded music as well as improvising in real-time along with human players.
eHealth – Smartphone App for vascular pulse measurement聽(2018/2019)
Smartphone application capable of vascular pulse measurement through image processing.
eHealth – Wearable heart-rate and temperature monitor (2018/2019)
Wearable device capable of monitoring user’s heart rate and body temperature.
Other
Attended 杏吧原创 Educational Development Center Certificate in University Teaching course