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STMicroelectronics Launches IoT-Enabled “Introduction to Embedded Systems with SensorTile” Curriculum

  • First-ever freshman-level hands-on expansion of real-time IoT-enabled embedded systems utilizing the SensorTile curriculum developed and taught by Professor William Kaiser at UCLA for his intro engineering course
  • Only requirements are hardware costing <$100 and (free) registration

STMicroelectronics,?a world semiconductor leader serving customers over the spectrum of electronics applications, February 12, 2018, announced the actual to all, including students, makers, and budding engineers and computer scientists with the?”Introduction to Embedded Systems with SensorTile”?course.

With a curriculum created by Professor William Kaiser with the University of California, La (UCLA), and employed to teach his freshman engineering class, the internet course resources supply a foundation to understand the basic principles of the sensor-based Internet of Things (IoT)-enabled embedded system. Professors at other universities may also be asked to adapt and give rise to the course.

The introductory course of 8 self-paced tutorials is created around ST’s SensorTile, a specialized real-time IoT-enabled embedded system on the postage-stamp-sized module. The small 13.5mm x 13.5mm module combines a high-performance, low-power STM32 Arm-Cortex-M-core microcontroller, 5 valuable MEMS (Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems) sensors-an inertial sensor containing an accelerometer and gyroscope, an eCompass, a pressure sensor, and a microphone-and a Bluetooth network processor. A kit using the module, cables, cradles, and a battery is available from major resellers around $80.

“The joint effort with ST to make the 8 tutorials freely accessible on the internet, with a full complement of documentation, open-source algorithms and development solutions, and unfettered usage of an evergrowing user forum is usually a terrific way to be sure that the sustainability of your community that any of us hope will expand to include community colleges, other universities, and in some cases high-school programs and self-starters,”?said Professor William Kaiser,?current director of Actuated Sensing & Coordinated Embedded Networked Technologies research group at UCLA’s Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science, and winner of UCLA’s 2007 Gold Shield Prize.?“In fact, while we’ve made the tutorials simple, yet powerful, young children and can newcomers will quickly realize a hurdle somewhere and we’re counting on the passion of users in the community to assist them overcome those inevitable roadblocks.”

“Professor Kaiser’s enthusiasm and resolve forpersistance to the creation of the ‘Introduction to Embedded Systems with SensorTile?curriculum has become extremely important to the achievements the course, which includes now been adopted for a necessity for all computer engineering students at UCLA,”?said John Rossi, Americas Region V . p . of Strategic Marketing, STMicroelectronics.?“For ST, this effort may be driven by our fascination with creating the same standard of excitement for engineering and problem solving we’ve, and to emphasize our message that everywhere microelectronics make a contribution to peoples’ lives, ST possibly there is.”

Anyone wondering much more about the tutorial or getting a SensorTile kit should visit?the internet site?(http://www.st.com/sensortile-edu).

Additional data is available, as well, to the ST blog (https://blog.st.com/introduction-embedded-systems-sensortile-online-course/).