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Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering

LESSON PLAN
Subject
Faculty

: EC6703 Embedded Real time Systems

: Padmavathy.R, A P/ECE.

Semester
Branch

: VII
: CSE

OBJECTIVES:
1. To learn the architecture and programming of ARM processor
2. To be familiar with the embedded computing platform design and analysis
3. To be exposed to the basic concepts of real time operating system
4. To learn the system design techniques and networks for embedded systems
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Unit I : Introduction to Embedded Computing

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Complex Systems and Micro processors

a. Embedded Computers
b. Characteristics
c. Challenges of Embedded computing System
Design
The Embedded System Design Process
a. Requirements
b. Specifications
c. Architecture Design
d. Designing Hardware Software Components
e. System Integration
f. Formalisms for System Design
g. Structural Description
h. Behavioral Description
Design Example - Model Train Controller
a. Requirements
b. Conceptual specification
c. Detailed Specification
d. Lessons learned
Instruction Sets - ARM Processor
a. Processor and memory organization
b. Data Operations
c. Flow of control

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Supervisor Mode, Exception ,Traps,

Co-Processors,
Memory system mechanisms
a. Caches
b. MMU & address translation

CPU performance
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a. Pipelining
b. Superscalar Execution
c. Caching
CPU Power Consumption
Unit II: Computing Platform and Design Analysis
CPU Bus
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a. Bus Protocols , DMA
b. System Bus configuration
c. ARM and SHARC bus
Memory devices
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a. Memory device organization
b. Random Access Memories
c. Read only memories
Input/output devices
a. Timers and counters ,A/D and D/A converters,
Keyboards, LEDs, Displays, Touchscreens

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Component Interfacing
a. Memory Interfacing
b. Device Interfacing
Designing with Microprocessor
a. System Architecture
b. Hardware Design
c. The PC as a platform
Development and debugging
a. Development environments
b. Debugging techniques
c. Debugging challenges
Program Design
a. Design Patterns
b. Design patterns for embedded systems
Models of Programs
a. Data Flow graphs/Control DFG
Assembly and Linking
a. Assemblers, Linking
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Basic Compilation Techniques

a. Statement translation
b. Procedures, Data Structures
c. Procedure In lining
a. Loop Transformation & Scheduling
b. Understanding Compilers & Interpreters
Analysis and Optimization of Execution Time
a. Elements of Program Performance
b. Trace Driven Performance Analysisis
c. Optimization for execution speed
Analysis and optimization of Power, Energy and
Program size
a. Energy consumption and optimization
Program validation and Testing
a. Clear Box Testing
b. Black box Testing
c. Evaluation Function tests
d. Performance Testing

Unit III : Process and Operating Systems

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Multiple Tasks and Multiple Processes

a. Multi rate systems
b. The Co-Routine Processes
Context Switching
a. Cooperative Multitasking
b. Pre-emptive Multitasking
c. Processes and Object Oriented Design

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Operating Systems
a. Process state and scheduling
b. Operating System Structure
c. Timing Requirements on Processes
d. Inter Process Communication
Scheduling Policies
a. RMS
b. EDF
c. RMS VS EDF
d. Other POSIX Scheduling policies
Inter Process communication
a. Signals, Signals in UML
b. Shared memory communication
c. Message Based Communication

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Evaluating Operating system performance

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Power optimization Strategies for Processes
Unit IV : System design techniques and networks 9
a. Design methodologies
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b. Design flows

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Requirement Analysis

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Specifications-

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a. System analysis and architecture design

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Quality Assurance
a. Quality Assurance techniques
b. Verifying the specification
c. Design Reviews

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Distributed embedded systems

a. Network Abstractions
b. CAN bus
c. Distributed Computing in Cars and airplanes
d. PC bus
e. Ethernet
f. Internet
MPSoCs and shared memory multiprocessors.
a. Hetereogenous shared memory
multiprocessors
b. Accelerators
c. Accelerator performance analysis
d. scheduling and allocation

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UNIT V: Case Study

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Hardware and Software co-Design

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Data Compressor
a. Requirements and Algorithm
b. Specification
c. Program Design
d. Testing
Alarm Clock

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Software Modem
a. Theory of operation and requirements
b. Specification and system architecture
c. Component design and testing
d. System integration and testing
Digital Still Camera
Telephone Answering Mschine
Engine Control Unit
Video Accelerator

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TEXT BOOK:
1. Marilyn Wolf, Computers as Components Principles of Embedded Computing
System Design, Third Edition Morgan Kaufmann Publisher (An imprint from
Elsevier), 2012.
REFERENCES:
1. Jonathan W.Valvano, Embedded Microcomputer Systems Real Time
Interfacing, Third Edition Cengage Learning, 2012.
2. David. E. Simon, An Embedded Software Primer, 1st Edition, Fifth Impression,
Addison-Wesley Professional, 2007.
3. Raymond J.A. Buhr, Donald L.Bailey, An Introduction to Real-Time SystemsFrom Design to Networking with C/C++, Prentice Hall, 1999.
4. C.M. Krishna, Kang G. Shin, Real-Time Systems, International Editions, Mc
Graw Hill 1997
5. K.V.K.K.Prasad, Embedded Real-Time Systems: Concepts, Design &
Programming, Dream Tech Press, 2005.
6. Sriram V Iyer, Pankaj Gupta, Embedded Real Time Systems Programming, Tata
Mc Graw Hill, 2004.
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