AP9224 EMBEDDED SYSTEMS ME VLSI DESIGN SYLLABUS

AP9224 EMBEDDED SYSTEMS

UNIT I EMBEDDED PROCESSORS 

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 PROCESSOR AND COMPUTING PLATFORM 

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 NETWORKS 

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, systemperformance 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.

REFERENCES:
1. Wayne Wolf, “Computers as Components: Principles of Embedded Computing System Design”, Morgan Kaufman Publishers.
2. Jane.W.S. Liu, “Real-Time systems”, Pearson Education Asia.
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.