Does the EMBEDDED module have an exam?

The Albion EMBEDDED course has no exam and earns CPSA-A credit points. Certification involves an assignment and an oral exam assessed by experts appointed by the iSAQB, after all admission requirements have been met.

How many credit points does EMBEDDED give?

The Albion EMBEDDED course carries 30 credit points under the iSAQB EMBEDDED curriculum 2021.1: 20 for technical competence, 10 for methodical competence and none for communicative competence.

What do I get for attending?

For the Albion EMBEDDED course you receive the Albion certificate of participation from 80% attendance, with a public verification page. It depends on no exam.

Do I need CPSA-F to attend?

You do not need a CPSA-F certificate for the Albion EMBEDDED course. The curriculum expects architecture foundations taught in CPSA-F trainings plus practice with embedded systems. A passed Foundation exam is required for CPSA-A admission.

Which functional safety standards come up?

The Albion EMBEDDED course covers IEC 61508 and ISO 26262 among other standards. The iSAQB curriculum names further domain-specific safety standards and compares their approaches.

How much of the module is hard real-time?

In the Albion EMBEDDED course, real-time and concurrency is the longest chapter of the iSAQB curriculum: 360 of 1080 recommended minutes. It covers scheduling, priority inversion and worst-case execution time.

Online or on site: the same course?

The Albion EMBEDDED course follows the same programme online and on site.

Is there a discount for a team?

The Albion EMBEDDED course offers a group discount for several seats in one booking. Whether it applies to a date, and from how many seats, is shown on the date's row and at checkout.

iSAQB EMBEDDED Dependable Embedded Systems Training

About the course

What this course is.

You can design embedded systems for functional safety and hard real-time.

Current curriculum: 2021.1; iSAQB · Advanced Level · EMBEDDED

Read the curriculum

After the course you can:

Derive and evaluate a system architecture
Classify hazards and their risks
Analyse schedulability and execution time
Set variation points and binding times

Credit point and certificate details

Dates

Dates for this course.

No public EMBEDDED dates are scheduled right now.

The next public date has not been announced. Join the waitlist to hear when it is set. For a team of four or more, we can run the course inhouse on your date.

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Before you book

Is this the right course for you?

Who it's for

If one of these four describes your work, you are in the right room.

You design software that drives sensors and actuators.
You answer for functional safety in a regulated development process.
You have to show that your system meets its deadlines.
You keep one architecture running across several product variants.

Prerequisites

Recommended

CPSA-F basics:
The foundations of software architecture as taught in accredited CPSA-F trainings
Embedded systems:
Practical experience designing and implementing them
Helpful:
Experience with safety-relevant or real-time systems makes some of the concepts easier

Curriculum, 5 topics

What the course covers.

The topics follow the iSAQB EMBEDDED curriculum 2021.1. Your trainer works through them live with the group.

Systems Development for Embedded Systems
Software Development for Embedded Systems
Dependability and Functional Safety
Real-Time and Concurrency
Adaptability

After the course you can

Model a functional architecture and trace event chains through it
Derive a technical system architecture and evaluate the alternatives
Select a modelling approach, a memory strategy and error handling
Run a hazard and risk analysis and classify the safety requirements
Apply redundancy and patterns for detecting and recovering from errors
Decide between a time-triggered and an event-triggered real-time design
Analyse schedulability and worst-case execution time
Model variation points and choose when variability is bound

How it works

How the training works.

Before the date
Before the course
Before the Albion EMBEDDED course you get the materials. Joining details or the address follow before the date.
Day 1
Day 2
Day 3
The course days
The course days follow the same programme online and on site; the times are on the date you booked.
After the course
After the course
From 80 percent attendance you get the Albion certificate of participation; the credit points count toward CPSA-A admission.
Credit points and certificate

After this course

Credit points, and the certificate you take home.

Certificate of participation

Albion

To receive it: At least 80% of the course time attended

Credit points

iSAQB

30 credit points toward CPSA-A

This course has no exam.

Technical: 20 credit points
Methodical: 10 credit points
Communicative: 0 credit points

What you still need for CPSA-A

This course contributes 30 of the 70 credit points required. Your total across modules must include at least 10 points in each area.

You also need the CPSA-F (Foundation) certificate; the official rules cover the remaining eligibility and assessment requirements.

Official CPSA-A requirements

Why Albion

Why book with Albion.

Every promise here is one the Terms can be held to, on every course.

Verified digital certificate
Public verification page
Every certificate Albion issues has a public verification page, and the certificate showroom shows a sample of each one.
See the certificate showroom
Accredited trainers who work as architects
iSAQB accreditation
Your trainers are accredited iSAQB trainers who work as architects, so the exercises come from systems they have built.

Related modules.

Dependable Embedded Systems adds 20 technical and 10 methodical points toward CPSA-A. Communicative is still open.

Technical: 20Minimum of 10 met
Methodical: 10Minimum of 10 met
Communicative: 0Open: minimum is 10

This course only. Your previous modules are not included. CPSA-A requires 70 points, at least 10 in each area, plus the Foundation certificate.

Modules that add communicative points

FAQ

Questions before you book.

Credit points and certificate

The Albion EMBEDDED course has no exam and earns CPSA-A credit points. Certification involves an assignment and an oral exam assessed by experts appointed by the iSAQB, after all admission requirements have been met.
The Albion EMBEDDED course carries 30 credit points under the iSAQB EMBEDDED curriculum 2021.1: 20 for technical competence, 10 for methodical competence and none for communicative competence.
For the Albion EMBEDDED course you receive the Albion certificate of participation from 80% attendance, with a public verification page. It depends on no exam.

The course

You do not need a CPSA-F certificate for the Albion EMBEDDED course. The curriculum expects architecture foundations taught in CPSA-F trainings plus practice with embedded systems. A passed Foundation exam is required for CPSA-A admission.
The Albion EMBEDDED course covers IEC 61508 and ISO 26262 among other standards. The iSAQB curriculum names further domain-specific safety standards and compares their approaches.
In the Albion EMBEDDED course, real-time and concurrency is the longest chapter of the iSAQB curriculum: 360 of 1080 recommended minutes. It covers scheduling, priority inversion and worst-case execution time.
The Albion EMBEDDED course follows the same programme online and on site.

Booking and price

The Albion EMBEDDED course offers a group discount for several seats in one booking. Whether it applies to a date, and from how many seats, is shown on the date's row and at checkout.

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iSAQB EMBEDDEDDependable Embedded Systems Training