AP7203 EMBEDDED SYSTEMS - ANNA UNIV PG 2ND SEM SYLLABUS REG 2013

ANNA UNIVERSITY, CHENNAI

REGULATIONS - 2013

M.E. APPLIED ELECTRONICS - SYLLABUS

AP7203 EMBEDDED SYSTEMS

OBJECTIVES: 

• To afford awareness about Hardware and software design architecture for embedded processors with real time examples.
• To learn various techniques of system design. 

UNIT I INTRODUCTION
Embedded Computers, Characteristics of Embedded Computing Applications, Challenges in
Embedded Computing system design, Embedded system design process- Requirements,
Specification, Architectural Design, Designing Hardware and Software Components, System
Integration, Formalism for System Design- Structural Description, Behavioural Description, Design Example: Model Train Controller, ARM processor- processor and memory organization.

UNIT II EMBEDDED PROCESSORS
Data operations, Flow of Control, SHARC processor- Memory organization, Data operations, Flow of Control, parallelism with instructions, CPU Bus configuration, ARM Bus, SHARC Bus, Memory devices, Input/output devices, Component interfacing, designing with microprocessor development and debugging, Design Example : Alarm Clock. Hybrid Architecture

UNIT III DISTRIBUTED EMBEDDED ARCHITECTURE
Hardware and Software Architectures, Networks for embedded systems- I2C, CAN Bus, SHARC link supports, Ethernet, Myrinet, Internet, Network-Based design- Communication Analysis, system performance Analysis, Hardware platform design, Allocation and scheduling, Design Example: Elevator Controller.

UNIT IV REAL-TIME CHARACTERISTICS
Clock driven Approach, weighted round robin Approach, Priority driven Approach, Dynamic Versus Static systems, effective release times and deadlines, Optimality of the Earliest deadline first (EDF) algorithm, challenges in validating timing constraints in priority driven systems, Off-line Versus On-line scheduling.

UNIT V SYSTEM DESIGN TECHNIQUES
Design Methodologies, Requirement Analysis, Specification, System Analysis and Architecture Design, Quality Assurance, Design Example: Telephone PBX- System Architecture, Ink jet printer- Hardware Design and Software Design, Personal Digital Assistants, Set-top Boxes.

TOTAL: 45 PERIODS
REFERENCES:
1. Wayne Wolf, “Computers as Components: Principles of Embedded Computing System
Design”, Morgan Kaufman Publishers, 2008.
2. Jane.W.S. Liu, “Real-Time systems”, Pearson Education Asia, 2000.
3. C. M. Krishna and K. G. Shin, “Real-Time Systems” , McGraw-Hill, 1997
4. Frank Vahid and Tony Givargis, “Embedded System Design: A Unified
Hardware/Software Introduction” , John Wiley & Sons, 2006.