EMBEDDED SYSTEM [EX]

SYLLABUS

Lectures: 3 Teaching Hours per week

Tutorial: 1 Teaching Hours per week

Practical: 3 Teaching Hours per two weeks

Course Objective:

To introduce students to understand and familiarization on applied computing principles in emerging technologies and applications for embedded systems

Theory

  1. Introduction to Embedded System [3 Hours]
    1. Embedded Systems overview
    2. Classification of Embedded Systems
    3. Hardware and Software in a system
    4. Purpose and Application of Embedded Systems
  2. Hardware Design Issues [4 Hours]
    1. Combination Logic
    2. Sequential Logic
    3. Custom Single-Purpose Processor Design
    4. Optimizing Custom Single-Purpose Processors
  3. Software Design Issues [6 Hours]
    1. Basic Architecture
    2. Operation
    3. Programmer’s View
    4. Development Environment
    5. Application-Specific Instruction-Set Processors
    6. Selecting a Microprocessor
    7. General-Purpose Processor Design
  4. Memory [5 Hours]
    1. Memory Write Ability and Storage Permanence
    2. Types of Memory
    3. Composing Memory
    4. Memory Hierarchy and Cache
  5. Interfacing [6 Hours]
    1. Communication Basics
    2. Microprocessor Interfacing: I/O Addressing, Interrupts, DMA
    3. Arbitration
    4. Multilevel Bus Architectures
    5. Advanced Communication Principles
  6. Real-Time Operating System (RTOS [8 Hours]
    1. Operating System Basics
    2. Task, Process, and Threads
    3. Multiprocessing and Multitasking
    4. Task Scheduling
    5. Task Synchronization
    6. Device Drivers
  7. Control System [3 Hours]
    1. Open-loop and Close-Loop control System overview
    2. Control System and PID Controllers
    3. Software coding of a PID Controller
    4. PID Tuning
  8. IC Technology [3 Hours]
    1. Full-Custom (VLSI) IC Technology
    2. Semi-Custom (ASIC) IC Technology
    3. Programming Logic Device (PLD) IC Technology
  9. Microcontrollers in Embedded Systems [3 Hours]
    1. Intel 8051 microcontroller family, its architecture and instruction sets
    2. Programming in Assembly Language
    3. A simple interfacing example with 7 segment display
  10. VHDL [4 Hours]
    1. VHDL overview
    2. Finite state machine design with VHDL

Practical

Student should be complete project work related to this subject.

Reference Books:

1. David E. Simon, “An Embedded Software Primer”, Addison-Wesley, 2005
2. Muhammad Ali Mazidi, “8051 Microcontroller and Embedded Systems”, Prentice Hall, 2006
3. Frank Vahid, Tony Givargis, “Embedded System Design”,  John Wiley & Sons, 2008
4. Douglas L. Perry, “VHDL Programming by example”, McGraw Hill, 2002

Evaluation Scheme

The question will cover all the chapters of the syllabus. The evaluation scheme will be as indicated in the table below:

Units Hours Marks
1 3 4
2 4 8
3 6 8
4 5 8
5 6 8
6 8 12
7 3 8
8 3 8
9 3 8
10 4 8
Total 45 80

Attributions to the Contributors:

Krischal Khanal