Course Description
Embedded systems and FPGA-based design underpin modern industrial automation, instrumentation, and control hardware — from smart sensors and protective relays to real-time controllers. This course provides comprehensive knowledge of embedded firmware development, real-time operating systems (RTOS), microcontroller and DSP architectures, and FPGA-based digital system design.
Participants gain practical understanding of how embedded hardware and firmware are designed for reliable operation in industrial environments, covering the toolchains and design flows used in professional development. The course is aimed at engineers who need to understand or develop the embedded intelligence built into industrial equipment.
What you will achieve
By the end of this training course, participants will be able to:
- Explain embedded system architecture and design principles
- Understand microcontroller and DSP architectures
- Develop embedded firmware fundamentals
- Explain real-time operating systems (RTOS) concepts
- Understand FPGA architecture and applications
- Describe hardware description languages (VHDL/Verilog) at a foundational level
- Apply embedded design flows and toolchains
- Understand reliability considerations for industrial embedded systems
How the course is delivered
The course combines architectural theory with practical design flow explanation, illustrated using industry-standard toolchains such as STM32CubeIDE, FreeRTOS, Xilinx Vivado, and Intel Quartus Prime. Concepts are grounded in real industrial embedded applications.
The programme balances firmware and FPGA content, making it accessible to engineers from both software and hardware backgrounds.
Designed for
This training course is ideal for:
- Electronics and embedded engineers
- Instrumentation and control engineers
- Automation hardware developers
- Engineers working with smart industrial devices
- Technical professionals entering embedded design
Daily programme
- Embedded system architecture
- Microcontroller architectures
- DSP architectures
- Memory and peripherals
- Firmware development fundamentals
- Programming embedded systems
- Interrupts and timing
- Debugging and toolchains (STM32CubeIDE)
- RTOS concepts and scheduling
- Tasks, queues, and synchronisation
- FreeRTOS in practice
- Real-time constraints
- FPGA architecture and applications
- Introduction to VHDL/Verilog
- FPGA design flow (Vivado, Quartus Prime)
- Digital system implementation
- Embedded systems in industrial control
- Smart sensors and instrumentation hardware
- Reliability and fault tolerance
- Design review and case studies
Certification & accreditation
BII Certificate of Completion
BII Certificate of Completion Upon successful completion, participants receive a BII Development Institute Certificate of Completion with a unique reference code that is independently verifiable. Our certificates are recognised internationally and reflect successful completion of your chosen programme.
