The research of PC based embedded software teaching in electrical engineering

To build a smart grid a growing number of intelligent electrical devices are applied to the power system causing the urgent use of embedded systems for electrical engineering education. In this paper the authors combined the characteristics of electrical engineering courses with their teaching practice aiming to explore a teaching program with the introduction of embedded software. By using PC as the hardware platform the course involved the embedded operating system as an open-source software platform and took the examples of the common functions of smart electrical equipment to explain the embedded operating system and programming concepts regarding its methods bringing convenience for students in practice. Based on the curriculum the program was able to synchronize with the embedded hardware instruction and this facilitated the arrangement in the curriculum of electrical engineering. © 2011 IEEE.