Embedded systems design - Lecture Notes, Study Materials and Important questions answers

Embedded Systems Design Lecture Notes, Study Materials and Important questions answers

Subject : Embedded Systems Design TEXT BOOK Embedded Systems Design Second edition by Steve Heath 1 What is an embedded system 1.

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What is an embedded system? - Answer (click here) Inside the embedded system - Answer (click here)

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Embedded processors - Answer (click here) 8 bit accumulator processors - Answer (click here) Example 8 bit architectures: Z80, Z80 programming model, MC6800 Answer (click here)

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Microcontrollers: MC68HC05, MC68HC11 - Architecture - Answer (click here)

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Data processors: Complex instructions, microcode and nanocode Answer (click here)

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INTEL 80286 - Answer (click here) INTEL 80386DX - Answer (click here) INTEL 80486 - Answer (click here) Intel Pentium - Answer (click here) Motorola MC68000 and its hardware - Answer (click here) Motorola MC68020 - Answer (click here) Motorola MC68030 - Answer (click here) The MC68040 - Answer (click here) Integrated processors - Answer (click here) RISC processors - Answer (click here) The Berkeley RISC model - Answer (click here) Sun SPARC RISC processor - Answer (click here) The Stanford RISC model - Answer (click here)

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The MPC603 block diagram - Answer (click here) The ARM RISC architecture - Answer (click here) Digital signal processors - Answer (click here) DSP basic architecture - Answer (click here) Choosing a processor - Answer (click here)

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Parallel ports - Answer (click here) Timer/counters - Answer (click here) 8253 timer modes - Answer (click here) MC68230 modes - Answer (click here) Timer processors - Answer (click here) Real-time clocks - Answer (click here) Serial ports - Answer (click here) Serial peripheral interface - Answer (click here) I2C bus - Answer (click here) What is an RS232 serial port? - Answer (click here) Asynchronous flow control - Answer (click here) UART implementations - Answer (click here) DMA controllers - Answer (click here) A generic DMA controller - Answer (click here) DMA controller models - Answer (click here) Channels and control blocks - Answer (click here) Sharing bus bandwidth - Answer (click here) DMA implementations - Answer (click here)

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Analogue to digital conversion techniques - Answer (click here) Sample rates and size: Irregular sampling errors, Nyquist’s theorem Answer (click here)

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Codecs: Linear, A-law and Inf-law, DPCM and ADPCM - Answer (click here)

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Power control in Interfacing to the analogue - Answer (click here)

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What is an interrupt? - Answer (click here) Interrupt sources - Answer (click here) Recognising an interrupt - Answer (click here) The interrupt mechanism - Answer (click here) MC68000 interrupts - Answer (click here) RISC exceptions - Answer (click here) Fast interrupts - Answer (click here) Interrupt controllers - Answer (click here) Instruction restart and continuation - Answer (click here) Interrupt latency - Answer (click here) Do’s and Don’ts - Interrupts and exceptions - Answer (click here)

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What are operating systems? - Answer (click here) Operating system internals - Answer (click here) Multitasking operating systems - Answer (click here) What is a real-time operating system? - Answer (click here) Task swapping methods - Answer (click here) Scheduler algorithms - Answer (click here) Priority inversion - Answer (click here) Tasks, threads and processes - Answer (click here) Exceptions - Answer (click here) Memory model - Answer (click here) Memory management address translation - Answer (click here) Choosing an operating system - Answer (click here) Commercial operating systems - Answer (click here) Windows NT characteristics - Answer (click here) Resource protection - Answer (click here) Linux - Answer (click here) Disk partitioning - Answer (click here) The Linux disk partitioning - Answer (click here) Linux software structure, Physical and Memory management - Answer (click here)

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Linux limitations - Answer (click here) eLinux - Answer (click here)

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Writing software for embedded systems - Answer (click here) The compilation process - Answer (click here)

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Native versus cross-compilers - Answer (click here) Run-time libraries - Answer (click here) Writing a library - Answer (click here) Using alternative libraries - Answer (click here) Using a standard library - Answer (click here) Porting kernels - Answer (click here) C extensions for embedded systems - Answer (click here) Downloading- Writing software for embedded systems - Answer (click here)

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Debugging techniques - Answer (click here) High level language simulation - Answer (click here) Low level simulation - Answer (click here) Onboard debugger - Answer (click here) Task level debugging - Answer (click here) Symbolic debug - Answer (click here) Emulation - Answer (click here) Optimisation problems in Emulation techniques - Answer (click here) Xray - Emulation technique - Answer (click here) The role of the development system: Floating point and memory management functions - Answer (click here) Emulation techniques: BDM, OnCE, JTAG - Answer (click here)

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What is a buffer? - Answer (click here) Linear buffers - Answer (click here) Directional buffers - Answer (click here) Double buffering - Answer (click here) Buffer exchange - Answer (click here) Linked lists - Buffering - Answer (click here) FIFOs and Circular buffers - Answer (click here) Buffer underrun and overrun - Answer (click here) Allocating buffer memory - Answer (click here) Memory leakage in Buffering - Answer (click here)

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The effect of memory wait states - Answer (click here) Single cycle processor with large external memory - Answer (click here)

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Reducing the cost of memory access - Answer (click here)

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Benchmark example - Embedded Systems - Answer (click here) Creating software state machines - Answer (click here)

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Burglar alarm system - Answer (click here) Burglar alarm system - Answer (click here)

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Choosing the software environment - Answer (click here) Deriving real-time performance from a non-real-time system - Answer (click here)

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Scheduling the data sampling - Answer (click here) Sampling the data- Real-time without a RTOS - Answer (click here) Controlling from an external switch - Answer (click here) Problems- Real-time without a RTOS - Answer (click here) Program listing- Real-time without a RTOS - Answer (click here)