Embedded Systems

The results of the exam have been published and should be visible to you here via CMS.

The text and solution of the exam exercises are posted under the Exams header in the internal page Materials. You can book a zoom appointment to inspect your exam correction and discuss the exercises until Monday September 13th at 23:59 by sending an email to maggio[@]cs.uni-saarland.de with the subject "[ES21] exam inspection September". Emails with a different subject and emails received after the deadline might be ignored. Make sure to check the solution before booking an appointment to inspect your exam.

The seating assignment for the exam on September 10th is now visible on your personal status page in the CMS.

Regarding hygiene regulations during the exam, please note the following:

• It is necessary for you to bring your medical mouth-nose protection mask (surgical mask or FFP2/KN95/N95 mask) with you.
• A safety distance of at least 1.5m should be kept at all times.
• While entering/leaving the room (this includes also waiting situations), moving in the room, and while talking to supervisors, putting on your mask is mandatory.
• You do not have to wear your mask when (everybody is) seated.

Please bring the following things to the exam:

• Pens (non-erasable pens in dark blue or black). 
• Your student ID card.
• A pocket calculator.
• Something to drink and (no noisy) food if you want.
• Your face mask.

Please note:

• We will provide you with sufficient amount of paper, please don't bring your own.
• Any cheat sheets, books, etc. are not allowed (the formula sheet will be attached to the exam itself as in the examples that you have in the Materials page).

When & how to enter the building?

• We plan to start the exam at 9:30 and finish at 11:30. However, keeping distance to each other and following the safety instructions has priority, so we may start or finish later.
• The exam takes place in the Günter-Hotz lecture hall (AudiMo - Günter-Hotz-Hörsaal, Gebäude E2 2). Your personal status page is showing you the seat we reserved for you. If you are seated in rows 1-9, please come to the front doors of the foyer. For rows 10-17, please come to the back doors opposite of the math building E2 4.
• Please be no later than 9:15 in the proximity of your designated entrance door. At any time, keep a distance of at least 1.5m to other people.
• The staff members will open the doors to let you in. Inside the building, you have to wear your face mask util everybody is seated and you must try to keep the distance of 1.5m to other students. You go directly to your seat and you take all your belongings with you (this is different to non-Corona times, where you leave your bags at the side of the lecture hall).

If your answer is "yes" to one or more of the following questions, then you are not allowed to attend the exam. Did you have definite contact with a Covid-19 patient, who was tested positive, in the last 14 days? Do you have any of the following symptoms (Cough / Husten, Sore throat / Halsschmerzen, Nasal congestion / runny nose / Schnupfen, Diarrhoea / Durchfall, Fever / Fieber, Aches and pains / Gliederschmerzen, Loss of smell (e.g. no longer able to smell burnt food) / Geruchsverlust, Loss of taste (e.g. unable to distinguish when food is burnt) / Geschmacksverlust). Please take these instructions seriously, both for your own safety and the safety of others. Also, you always must follow the instructions of the staff members in the lecture hall. Otherwise, you can be excluded from the exam.

Finally, the exam inspaction will take place on zoom. There will be a registration period for the inspection. To register for the inspection you will need to send an email an email to maggio[@]cs.uni-saarland.de (the deadline for sending this email will be announced together with the grades).

The results of the exam have been published and should be visible to you here via CMS.

The text and solution of the exam exercises are posted under the Exams header in the internal page Materials. You can book a zoom appointment to inspect your exam correction and discuss the exercises until Wednesday August 18th at 23:59 by sending an email to maggio[@]cs.uni-saarland.de with the subject "[ES21] exam inspection". Emails with a different subject and emails received after the deadline might be ignored. Make sure to check the solution before booking an appointment to inspect your exam.

The seating assignment for the exam on August 5th is now visible on your personal status page in the CMS.

Regarding hygiene regulations during the exam, please note the following:

• It is necessary for you to bring your medical mouth-nose protection mask (surgical mask or FFP2/KN95/N95 mask) with you.
• A safety distance of at least 1.5m should be kept at all times.
• While entering/leaving the room (this includes also waiting situations), moving in the room, and while talking to supervisors, putting on your mask is mandatory.
• You do not have to wear your mask when (everybody is) seated.

Please bring the following things to the exam:

• Pens (non-erasable pens in dark blue or black). 
• Your student ID card.
• A pocket calculator.
• Something to drink and (no noisy) food if you want.
• Your face mask.

Please note:

• We will provide you with sufficient amount of paper, please don't bring your own.
• Any cheat sheets, books, etc. are not allowed (the formula sheet will be attached to the exam itself as in the examples that you have in the Materials page).

When & how to enter the building?

• We plan to start the exam at 9:30 and finish at 11:30. However, keeping distance to each other and following the safety instructions has priority, so we may start or finish later.
• The exam takes place in the Günter-Hotz lecture hall (AudiMo - Günter-Hotz-Hörsaal, Gebäude E2 2). Your personal status page is showing you the seat we reserved for you. If you are seated in rows 1-9, please come to the front doors of the foyer. For rows 10-17, please come to the back doors opposite of the math building E2 4.
• Please be no later than 9:15 in the proximity of your designated entrance door. At any time, keep a distance of at least 1.5m to other people.
• The staff members will open the doors to let you in. Inside the building, you have to wear your face mask util everybody is seated and you must try to keep the distance of 1.5m to other students. You go directly to your seat and you take all your belongings with you (this is different to non-Corona times, where you leave your bags at the side of the lecture hall).

If your answer is "yes" to one or more of the following questions, then you are not allowed to attend the exam. Did you have definite contact with a Covid-19 patient, who was tested positive, in the last 14 days? Do you have any of the following symptoms (Cough / Husten, Sore throat / Halsschmerzen, Nasal congestion / runny nose / Schnupfen, Diarrhoea / Durchfall, Fever / Fieber, Aches and pains / Gliederschmerzen, Loss of smell (e.g. no longer able to smell burnt food) / Geruchsverlust, Loss of taste (e.g. unable to distinguish when food is burnt) / Geschmacksverlust). Please take these instructions seriously, both for your own safety and the safety of others. Also, you always must follow the instructions of the staff members in the lecture hall. Otherwise, you can be excluded from the exam.

Finally, the exam inspaction will take place on zoom. There will be a registration period for the inspection. To register for the inspection you will need to send an email an email to maggio[@]cs.uni-saarland.de (the deadline for sending this email will be announced together with the grades).

In the materials section, I have shared two links for the evaluation of the course and the tutorials. I encourage you to fill in the (anonymous) evaluation, and to give (constructive) feedback on the course quality, material, and organisation. The evaluation will be very useful and I will take into account your comments for future editions of the course.

The grade and feedback for you midterm submission are now visible on your CMS page. The correction has also set your admission status for the exams (the condition being that you passed the midterm assignment). In the feedback part of the form, you will find the initials of the tutor that graded your assignment. Please contact the tutor (or visit their tutorial session) if you have questions about the correction.

Due to the many requests of a short extension, the midterm assignment deadline has been pushed back 48 hours, and the new deadline is Sunday 6th, 23:59 (you additionally have the weekend to turn the assignment in). Also, the exam dates are August 5th and September 10th, in both cases from 9:15 to 12:00 in Günter-Hotz Lecture Hall, E2 2, HS I, E2 5. If you cannot be physically present at the exam in Saarbrücken, please write an email (maggio[@]cs.uni-saarland.de) explaining the reasons why you cannot attend the exam in person, and we'll discuss alternative solutions on a case-by-case basis.

During the tutorials some of you felt the desire to be connected with fellow students and be able to discuss the assignment (and other course-related topics). We have created a discord channel, where you can interact. To sign up, you can use this link. We will be able to read the messages and (although with some delay, at least on my side) we'll try to reply. The main function of the channel is still just interaction between you students and not asking questions.
PS: There is a new version of the assignment that corrects an imprecision in the text.

This is a reminder that the midterm assignment will be released tomorrow morning at 9:00am in the materials sections on the website. The submission of the solution will be open until Friday, 04.06.2021 23:59. You are welcome to discuss the assignment in the next tutorials. Note that the assignment should be completed before the deadline in order to take part in the exam.

Hello everybody and welcome to the Embedded Systems course in the summer semester 2021. During the course you will experience a mix of lectures and tutorials. The first lecture is going to be live on zoom on April 13th at 14:15. We are going to discuss the logistics of the course and the main motivation behind the study of embedded systems and why we have selected some specific topics. The following lectures are going to be recorded videos (that you will be able to download), released at specific times. Tutorials are going to be live and held in zoom. To get the links for the first lecture, the videos, and the tutorials you can simply go to the Materials page. To see the schedule for the course, you can browse to the Timetable page. To contact me or your tutors, please use the email addresses that you find in the Team page. I hope you will enjoy the course.