B.E. (Biomedical Engineering) Advanced Embedded Systems Abbreviated As AES Syllabus - Mumbai University

Module 1: : Overview of ARM family, comparison of RISC and CISC Cortex-M3 architecture, pipelining, BUS interfaces

• Programmers’ model: register set, program status register, operation modes and Memory system and memory protection unit (MPU). Exceptions, interrupt architecture: Nested vectored interrupt controller, power management, watchdog timer and systick timer.

Module 2: Introduction to Embedded Systems and Embedded Hardware: characteristics and design metrics of embedded system, challenges in embedded system design, embedded processors, co-processors and hardware accelerators. Processor performance enhancement: pipelining and superscalar architecture. Types of memories and buffers, sensors (optical encoders, resistive sensors)

• and actuators (solenoid valves, relay/switch, opto-couplers). Power supply considerations in embedded systems: linear and switching voltage regulators, low power features, sleep mode, brown-out detection.

Module 3: Embedded Software – RTOS 01: Features of RTOS, advantages of RTOS, hard and soft real time systems, selecting an RTOS, Kernel architectures and Task/Processes and threads, task states, multitasking, interrupt latency. Context Switching: Cooperative multi-tasking and pre-emptive multi-tasking. Task Scheduler: FIFO, round robin, rate-monotonic scheduling, earliest

• deadline first scheduling, fault-tolerant scheduling

Module 4: Embedded Software – RTOS 02 : Inter-process communication: Semaphores and signals, shared memory communication, message based communication. Memory management, file systems, device management (device drivers), I/O and communications management.

• Event timers, task synchronization, priority inversion, deadlock. Software design methodologies: UML, FSM, DFG. Evaluating and optimizing operating system performance: response-time calculation, interrupt latency, time-loading, memory loading.

Module 5: : Study of Kernel structure of FreeRTOS, functions for initialization, task creation, inter-task communication and resource management, memory management.

• System integration, testing and debugging methodology: Embedded product design life-cycle (EDLC), Hardware-software co-design testing & debugging: Boundary-scan/JTAG interface concepts, black-box testing, white-box testing.

Module 6: Chocolate vending machine, washing machine, automotive systems, auto-focusing digital camera, air-conditioner.

Text books

• 1 Embedded Systems Architecture Programming and Design: Raj Kamal, Tata McGraw Hill
• 2 Software Design for Real-Time Systems: Cooling, J E, published by Chapman and Hall in 1991 ... ISBN 978-0-442-31174-2
• 3 Embedded System Design: A unified Hardware/software Introduction by Frankvahid/Tony Givargis, Wiley India Edition
• 4 Real-Time Systems Design and Analysis: An Engineer's Handbook: Laplante, Phillip A by IEEE press, Wiley-Interscience, A John Wiley and Sons Inc, Publications
• 5 Embedded / Real-Time Systems: Concepts, Design and Programming Black Book, New ed (MISL-DT) University of Mumbai, Biomedical Engineering, Rev 2021-22 58
• 1 Embedded Realtime Systems Programming by Sriram Iyer and Pankaj Gupta, Tata McGraw Hill.
• 2 Dreamteach Software team, Programming for Embedded Systems, AVR 8515 manual
• 3 Bruce Powel Douglas, “Real-Time UML, Second Edition: Developing Efficient Object for Embedded Systems, 2nd edition ,1999, Addison-Wesley
• 4 An Embedded Software Primer by David E. Simon - Pearson Education, 2003 Theory Examination: