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PG Diploma Embedded Systems

General Information

Subject of Study

Syllabus:

PGDE101 - Introduction to Embedded Systems & Processors for Embedded Systems

What is embedded systems? -Important aspects of embedded systems.

Embedded system design concepts. Embedded system: Hardware Design, Embedded Processors,  Interface to the external world Software design for embedded systems.

1. Introduction to distributed embedded systems.

2. Difference between Microprocessor and Micro controller

3. Micro Controllers – 8/16 bits

4. PIC Micro Controllers

5. 8051 and its variants

6. Modern RISC Processors for Embedded Applications

7. On-Chip Requirements:

8. Chip Selects

9. Watch Dog Timers

10. Endian Modes

11. Communication Processors

12. Interrupt handling

13. Power Management Support

14. Power PC Architecture

15. 8051 Architecture

16. Addressing modes

17. Keil Assembler

18. Arithmetic/Logical operation

19. Interrupts

20. C51 Complier

21. Application development using ALP and C programming Keil Debugger

22. Architecture of RTX-51

23. Task Manager

24. Interrupt management

25. Time management

26. Memory management Inter task Communication and Synchronization  

References

1. Vahid/Givargis –“Embedded Systems Design”, Wiley Publication.

2. Kennath J. Ayala –“8051 – Micro controller”, Penram Publications.

3. www. Keil.com

PGDE102 - C & C++ Programming

1. Types, operators, expressions

2. Control flow

3. Pointers & arrays

4. Structures

5. Input & output

6. Standard libraries

7. OOPS Concepts

8. Input and output in CPP

9. Data Structures

10. Simple application

References

1. Balaguruswamy – “Programming in ANSI  C”, Tata McGraw.

2. Bayron Got fried-“Programming with C”, Schaum’s series.

3. Balaguruswamy-“Object Oriented Programming”, Tata McGraw.

PGDE103 - VHDL

Introduction, basic terminology, entity declaration, architecture body, configuration declaration, package declaration, package body, model analysis, identifiers, data objects, data types, operators.

Behavioral Modeling – entity declaration, architecture body, process statement, variable, signal assignment, statements - wait, if, case, null, loop next, assertion, report, multiple process, Data modeling – concurrent signal assignment, delta delay, multiple drivers, block statements, Structural Modeling – component declaration, component instantiation.

Generic, Configurations specification, declaration, conversion functions, direct instantiation, Subprograms, Subprograms overloading, operator overloading, signatures, Package declaration, package body, design file, design libraries

Advanced features – Entity statement, generate statement, aliases, type conversions, guarded signals, attributes, Model simulation – writing test bench, Hardware modeling – modeling entity interface, simple elements, regular structure, delays, conditional operations, synchronous logic, state machine.

References:

J.Bhaskar,  “ VHDL “, 3^rd Edition, Addison Wesley, 1999.

PGDE104 - Lab Practical

1. C & C++ Programming  

1. Basic concepts of pointers

2. I/O systems

3. Data Structures

2. ALP& C Programming– 8051

1. Interrupt management

2. Counter/Timer concepts

3. Small applications like packet counter

4. Traffic light control, stepper motor control

3. VHDL Experiments

1. Half adder, Full adder, Sub tractor Flip Flops, 4bit comparator

2. Parity generator

3. Bit up/down counter with load able count

4. Decoder and encoder

5. 8 bit shift register

6. 8:1 multiplexer

7. Flip-Flop –RS,D,T,JK

8. Barrel shifter

9. N by m binary multiplier

10. Code Converter-BCD to Seven segment, BCD to Excess3.

Tools : Turboc , Keil software , Xilinx Tools, Model SIM, Leonardo Spectrum

PGDE105 - Real Time Operating System – pSOS, VxWorks, Win CE, RT Linux

1. PSOS system overview

2. pSOS+ real time kernel concepts

3. pNA+ network manager concepts

4. input output system

5. Exploring pRISM+ environment

6. Overview of building a pSOS system application debugger 

7. Intro to VxWorks concepts

8. Basic OS concepts – the “wind” kernel

9. Input output system

10. Tornado development environment

11. Inter task communication and synchronization Task management

12. Intro to windows OS

13. Windows architecture

14. Programming windows CE

15. Embedded Linux Internals

References

www.windriver.com

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