Lund University

This course gives a general introduction to embedded system design which can be implemented using System-on-Chip technology. This kind of embedded systems contains both hardware and software components and therefore a hardware/software co-design is emphasized. The course gives a basic knowledge on specification methods, design representations (computational models) as well as related design methods. Special emphasis is placed on interface synthesis and low-power design methods.

The course an overview of the major languages in the world, the families to which they belong, their structural characteristics and where they are spoken. Different accounts as to why languages resemble or differ from each other regarding grammar and sound systems are taken up and discussed. Explanations as to why the number of languages in the world is fast decreasing through language death are further examined. The course puts emphasis on practical exercises where students are trained in analyzing language structure and placing a language in a typological context on the basis of authentic data.

The course covers both the historically specific concept of The Total Work of Art (Gesamtkunstwerk), with Richard Wagner's opera aesthetics in focus, as well as other forms of compound medial artistic expressions of our times such as film, music videos, and architecture. Special attention is paid to concepts such as form/content, art, intermediality, border crossings, art, aesthetics, and ideology.

In the study of physiology and anatomy, the course explores how organs are built and how they work together. The building stones of the human body (bone, articular cartilage, ligaments, tendons, muscles, blood, and body fluids) are described and situated in the context of students' previous knowledge of mechanics and solid mechanics. Concepts like constitutive equations and evolution laws are applied to biological material, like bone, where effects from mechanical loading on the inner structure are modeled. The architecture of the skeleton and the apparatus of locomotion are described as a mechanical system where the bones are coupled together in joints and the activity in the muscles controls the movements.