The course introduces basics of embedded systems and their development methods: - Principles of embedded systems, differences from traditional computer systems; - Architectures and platforms of embedded systems. Generic and application specific architectures; - Embedded software, differences from application software; - Energy and power consumption, dependability and fault tolerance of embedded systems; - Notion of time in real-time embedded systems, scheduling of computation processes and planning of resources; - Development tools for microcontroller systems (on base of ARM Cortex M).