EC342 Embedded System Design

Course Name:

Programme:

B.Tech (ECE)

Category:

Programme Specific Electives (PSE)

Credits (L-T-P):

(2-0-3) 4

Content:

Introduction: Overview of embedded systems, embedded system design challenges, common design metrics and optimizing. Survey of different embedded system design technologies & trade-offs. Embedded microcontroller cores, embedded memories, Examples of embedded systems. Architecture for embedded system, High performance processors – strong ARM processors, programming, interrupt structure, I/O architecture, Technological aspects of embedded systems: interfacing between analog and digital blocks, signal conditioning, Digital signal processing, Subsystem interfacing, interfacing with external systems. Software aspects of embedded systems: real time programming languages and operating systems for embedded systems – RTOS requirements, kernel types, scheduling, context switching, latency, inter-task communication and synchronization, Case studies.

References:

Jack Ganssle, The Art of Designing Embedded Systems, Elsevier, 1999. Steve Furber, “ARM System Architecture”, Edison Wesley Longman, 1996.

J.W. Valvano, Embedded Microcomputer System: Real Time Interfacing, Brooks/Cole, 2000.

David Simon, An Embedded Software Primer, Addison Wesley, 2000.

H. Kopetz, Real-time Systems, Kluwer, 1997

R. Gupta, Co-synthesis of Hardware and Software for Embedded Systems, Kluwer 1995.

Gomaa, Software Design Methods for Concurrent and Real-time Systems, Addison-Wesley, 1993.

Andrew N. Sloss, Dominic Symes, Chris Wright, “ARM System Developer’s Guide: Designing and Optimizing System Software”, Elsevier, 2004.

Department:

Electronics and Communication Engineering(ECE)

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