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Please Vote: What Arm Education Course Would You Most Like To RoadTest?

Are you ready for a different kind of RoadTest? Would you like to get a chance to take a complete course with the associated lab kit? If so, let me tell you about it...

 

element14 and Arm Education are collaborating to offer element14 RoadTests of the Arm's online courses. Arm would like to get some feedback on the courses while element14 likes the idea of roadtesting courses that help expand the knowledge of it members.

 

I'd like you to give me some feedback and what course you would like to roadtest first? Here are the courses and links to the course descriptions. Note: course prerequisites are listed in the course descriptions.

 

Efficient Embedded Systems Design and Programming: Learn the design and programming of embedded systems, and how to implement them in low-level hardware using standard C and assembly language

 

Rapid Embedded Systems Design and Programming: Learn how to accelerate the development of embedded systems and rapidly prototype various embedded applications

 

Internet of Things: Learn IoT principles by working through a system that connects embedded sensors using commodity smartphones, developing skills such as app development and embedded system design

 

Digital Signal Processing: Learn to design DSP systems and create commercially viable audio applications, using high-performance and energy-efficient processors

 

Real-Time Operating Systems Design and Programming: Learn foundational RTOS concepts for embedded applications, including task scheduling, memory allocation and resource management

 

Introduction to System on Chip Design: Learn a typical SoC development process around Arm Cortex-M based processors, which are perfectly suited for IoT needs

 

Advanced System on Chip (SoC) Design: Engage with a typical advanced SoC design process on an Arm Cortex-A based platform, including design and implementation using standard hardware description and software programming languages

 

Graphics and Mobile Gaming: Learn the latest graphics and game design technologies on mobile devices, with a focus on optimizing performance and reducing power consumptio

  • These all sound great, and my top two choices would be DSP and RTOS.  I worked with both for a audio/speech processing application on a Cortex M4 MCU -- it was a challenging and fun project, with real-time low-power requirements.  Different RTOS's can have custom features for ensuring "real time" behavior, like thread/task-notification without need of message queues.  Always more to learn about such things image

  • My choice would have to be the Efficient Embedded Systems Design and Programming course. I've tried to use two boards that have ARM based devices on them - the STM32L4R9I-DISCO Discovery Kit - Review  and NXP I.MX RT1050 EV KIT and Display - Review

     

    I understand C, the Arduino boards and using PIC microcontrollers but I struggled to get into the ARM embedded area and the IDE/compiler toolchains, understanding the concepts of programming these. There seemed to be some basic concepts that I just couldn't grasp and could not find any material on the internet that gave a nice simple overview or tutor that I could ask those questions to.

     

    The other courses sound great but would be of little value to me until I was confident in the basics.

     

    Rod

  • Something for implementation of Machine Learning in arious things.

    Especially of using Image Recognition for various things

    in real time

    on embedded systems.

  • I want to clarify: I am sure we will offer several of these courses. So, it's quite alright if you are the only person interested in a particular course. I am trying to gauge interest and determine which one to recommend to begin with. I have my choice, but I really would prefer to build some consensus in the community in determining where to begin.

     

    Randall Scasny

    RoadTest Program Manager

  • in reply to afmishaq

    Lots of members would like that course too, but we can only select one.

  • It appears that I am the only one who selected the "Introduction to System on Chip Design" course. The reason I selected is that I feel that some introduction to SoC should be introduced in the standard Digital Logic Design (DLD) courses in Colleges and Universities. Instead of spending about 75% of the time and effort in simplification and hand drawing logic and timing diagrams, it may be more useful to go to something like Multisim and end with a hands-on introduction to SoC.

  • Having watched and followed along with the Path to Programmable course, I chose Advanced SoC Design. The Introduction to SoC looks interesting too.

  • Like other respondents, I have chosen the course teaching the topics I am least familiar with. In this way, if this turns into a roadtest and I will be among the lucky winners I will be happy to learn something new I might also use in practice.

    I have used ARM educational material from the ARM Lab-in-a-Box series which are developed so it can be used with different hardware development boards based on ARM Cortex-M core from different vendors (NXP, ST, Cypress etc). They provide the board of your choice but, for doing the lab works, some additional components (not available on every development board) might be needed (buttons, switches, buzzers, LEDs, LCD display etc).

  • Randall,

     

    If this does turn into a RoadTest, is it possible to offer a list of courses which the applicant can choose one and explain why they pick the one they did in their application?

     

    Merry Christmas, Gordon

  • in reply to DAB

    DAB,

     

    Your comment leads me to an interesting thought that Randall may be able to clarify.  Is he (and ARM) looking for roadtestee with experience with the topic to review the content or those without experience in the topic to see it the training is sufficient to allow the roadtestee to advance in a topic?  It would be nice to know when submitting an application.

     

    Gordon