Microcontroller and Embedded Systems detailed Syllabus for Information Science Engineering (IS), 2018 scheme has been taken from the VTUs official website and presented for the VTU students. For Course Code, Subject Names, Teaching Department, Paper Setting Board, Theory Lectures, Tutorial, Practical/Drawing, Duration in Hours, CIE Marks, Total Marks, Credits and other information do visit full semester subjects post given below. The Syllabus PDF files can also be downloaded from the official website of the university.
For all other VTU IS 4th Sem Syllabus for BE 2018 Scheme, do visit VTU IS 4th Sem Syllabus for BE 2018 Scheme Subjects. The detailed Syllabus for microcontroller and embedded systems is as follows.
Course Learning Objectives:
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Module 1
Microprocessors versus Microcontrollers, ARM Embedded Systems: The RISC design philosophy, The ARM Design Philosophy, Embedded System Hardware, Embedded System Software. ARM Processor Fundamentals: Registers, Current Program Status Register, Pipeline, Exceptions, Interrupts, and the Vector Table , Core Extensions Text book 1: Chapter 1 – 1.1 to 1.4, Chapter 2 – 2.1 to 2.5 RBT: L1, L2
Module 2
Introduction to the ARM Instruction Set : Data Processing Instructions , Programme Instructions, Software Interrupt Instructions, Program Status Register Instructions, Coprocessor Instructions, Loading Constants ARM programming using Assembly language: Writing Assembly code, Profiling and cycle counting, instruction scheduling, Register Allocation, Conditional Execution, Looping Constructs Text book 1: Chapter 3:Sections 3.1 to 3.6 ( Excluding 3.5.2), Chapter 6(Sections 6.1 to 6.6) RBT: L1, L2
Module 3
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Text Books:
2:Chapter 1(Sections 1.2 to 1.6),Chapter 2(Sections 2.1 to 2.6) RBT: L1, L2
Module 4
Embedded System Design Concepts: Characteristics and Quality Attributes of Embedded Systems, Operational quality attributes ,non-operational quality attributes, Embedded Systems-Application and Domain specific, Hardware Software Co-Design and Program Modelling, embedded firmware design and development
Text Books:
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Module 5
RTOS and IDE for Embedded System Design: Operating System basics, Types of operating systems, Task, process and threads (Only POSIX Threads with an example program), Thread preemption, Multiprocessing and Multitasking, Task Communication (without any program), Task synchronization issues – Racing and Deadlock, Concept of Binary and counting semaphores (Mutex example without any program), How to choose an RTOS, Integration and testing of Embedded hardware and firmware, Embedded system Development Environment – Block diagram (excluding Keil), Disassembler/decompiler, simulator, emulator and debugging techniques, target hardware debugging, boundary scan.
Text Books:
2: Chapter-10 (Sections 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 10.4 , 10.7, 10.8.1.1, 10.8.1.2, 10.8.2.2, 10.10 only), Chapter 12, Chapter-13 ( block diagram before 13.1, 13.3, 13.4, 13.5, 13.6 only) RBT: L1, L2
Course Outcomes:
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Question Paper Pattern:
- The question paper will have ten questions.
- Each full Question consisting of 20 marks
- There will be 2 full questions (with a maximum of four sub questions) from each module.
- Each full question will have sub questions covering all the topics under a module.
- The students will have to answer 5 full questions, selecting one full question from each module.
Textbooks:
- Andrew N Sloss, Dominic Symes and Chris Wright, ARM system developers guide, Elsevier, Morgan Kaufman publishers, 2008
- Shibu K V, Introduction to Embedded Systems, Tata McGraw Hill Education, Private Limited, 2nd Edition.
Reference Books:
- Raghunandan.G.H, Microcontroller (ARM) and Embedded System, Cengage learning Publication,2019
- The Insider’s Guide to the ARM7 Based Microcontrollers, Hitex Ltd.,1st edition, 2005.
- Steve Furber, ARM System-on-Chip Architecture, Second Edition, Pearson, 2015
- Raj Kamal, Embedded System, Tata McGraw-Hill Publishers, 2nd Edition, 2008
For detail Syllabus of all other subjects of BE 4th Sem Information Science Engineering, visit (IS) 4th Sem Syllabus Subjects.
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