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Priniciples of Embedded Systems

This document outlines the objectives, outcomes, contents and textbooks for a course on principles of embedded systems. The course objectives are to introduce features of embedded systems and help students understand the interaction between components. It will cover techniques for interfacing processors and devices, writing efficient programs, and introducing real-time operating systems concepts. The course contents will include introduction to functional blocks, processor and memory organization, interfacing devices and buses, I/O programming and scheduling mechanisms, and real-time operating systems. Students will complete experiments involving LED blinking, ADC, UART communication, motor speed control using PWM, and applications using peripherals.

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Priniciples of Embedded Systems

This document outlines the objectives, outcomes, contents and textbooks for a course on principles of embedded systems. The course objectives are to introduce features of embedded systems and help students understand the interaction between components. It will cover techniques for interfacing processors and devices, writing efficient programs, and introducing real-time operating systems concepts. The course contents will include introduction to functional blocks, processor and memory organization, interfacing devices and buses, I/O programming and scheduling mechanisms, and real-time operating systems. Students will complete experiments involving LED blinking, ADC, UART communication, motor speed control using PWM, and applications using peripherals.

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PRINICIPLES OF EMBEDDED SYSTEMS

Course Objectives:

 Introduce to features that build an embedded system.  To help students to understand the
interaction that the various components within an embedded system have with each other. 
Techniques of inter facing between processors & peripheral device related to embedded processing. 
To enable writing of efficient programs on any dedicated processor.  To introduce the concepts of Real
time operating systems.

Course Outcomes

Upon completion of the course, students shall have ability to

1 Remember the building blocks for Embedded System.

2 Remember the Processor and memory Organization.

3 Understand the Devices and buses for device network.

4 Understand the feedback connections to be used in amplifiers.

5 Apply I/O Programming and Schedule Mechanism.

6 Understand the Real Time Operating System.

Course Contents

INTRODUCTION TO EMBEDDED SYSTEM : Introduction to functional building blocks of embedded


systems – Register, memory devices, ports, timer, interrupt controllers using circuit block diagram
representation for each categories. PROCESSOR AND MEMORY ORGANIZATION : Structural units in a
processor; selection of processor & memory devices; shared memory; DMA; interfacing processor,
memory and I/O units; memory management – Cache mapping techniques, dynamic allocation -
Fragmentation. Case study: Required Memory devices for a Digital Camera and Voice recorder. DEVICES
& BUSES FOR DEVICES NETWORK : I/O devices; timer & counting devices; serial communication using
I2C,SPI, CAN, USB buses, RS485,RS232, wireless applications(Bluetooth,Zigbee) parallel communication
using ISA, PCI, PCI/X buses, arm bus; interfacing with devices/ports, device drivers in a system –
Introduction. I/O PROGRAMMING AND SCHEDULE MECHANISM : Intel I/O instruction – Transfer rate,
latency; interrupt driven I/O - Non-maskable interrupts; software interrupts, writing interrupt service
routine in C & assembly languages; preventing interrupt overrun; disability interrupts. Case study:
Automatic Washing machine, Chocolate vending machine REAL TIME OPERATING SYSTEM (RTOS):
Introduction to basic concepts of RTOS, RTOS – Interrupt handling, Scheduling Algorithms - Rate
monotonic algorithm - earliest deadline algorithm – Round robin algorithm; embedded system design
issues in system development process – Action plan, use of target system, emulator, use of software
tools. Allocation and scheduling. Multi threaded programming – Context switching, premature & non-
premature multitasking, semaphores. Scheduling – Thread states, pending threads, context switching,
round robin scheduling, priority based scheduling, assigning priorities, deadlock, watch dog timers.
List of Experiments 1. LED Blinking Program 2. ADC using Potentiometer. 3. Communication using UART
4. Speed control of DC motor using PWM 5. Programming Using Timer is an application 6. Application
Using Peripherals.

Text Books:

1. P. Rajkamal, ‘Embedded System – Architecture, Programming, Design’, Tata McGraw Hill, 2014.

2. Daniel W. Lewis, ‘Fundamentals of Embedded Software’, Prentice Hall of India, 2013.

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