EMBEDDED SYSTEMS AND REAL-TIME APPLICATIONS

Course Objective: To give awareness about Embedded systems, microcontroller 8051 and its applications, Linux, Embedded Linux and other digital embedded applications

Syllabus:

Hardware

-Microprocessor basics. Terminology and principles. 8051 Microcontroller Architecture: Function and basic description of 8051components to include Special Function Registers (SFRs). Interfacing and address decoding techniques. Essential hardware for computer control, Interfacing, address decoding, analogue and digital input/output. input/output control A/D and D/A conversion, Interrupts, bus timing, serial and parallel communications. Bus timing, Interrupts Real-time systems.

Software

-Program creation, flow charting. Algorithms for embedded control. Structured programming, Data structures and types, Program classification. Computer control: Components of embedded control systems to include terminology and components. Discrete modelling for computer control. PID control in discrete form. Classification of programs, programs for sequential tasks, multitasking systems, real-time systems. Real World Interfacing – LCD, ADC, Sensors, Stepper motor, keyboard and DAC

LINUX

-Introduction to Linux operating Systems, Administering LINUX – root login, super user, administrative commands, configuring modules, working with file systems, Setting up and supporting users,  Automating System tasks, Computer security Issues, Setting up a LAN in Linux,

Embedded Linux

-Real Time Operating System, System Architecture, selection of platform, booting linux, debugging. Interfacing- Asynchronous serial communication interfacing, parallel port interfacing, USB interfacing, Memory interfacing, Synchronous serial communication interfacing, System Integration.

Case studies involving digital control in embedded systems. Computer Simulations                       (MATLAB/SIMULINK), Embedded System Coding (The Real-Time Workshop Embedded Coder in MATLAB)

Text Books:

1. ‘C and the 8051: programming for multitasking’

–         SHULTZ, T. W

–         Prentice-Hall, 1993

2. ‘The 8051 Microcontrollers & Embedded Systems’

–         MAZIDI

–         Pearson Education Asia

3. ‘Embedded LINUX’

–         CRAIG HOLLABAUGH

–         Pearson Education Asia

References:

1. ‘The 8051 family of Microcontroller’

–         BARNETT R H

–         Prentice-Hall, 1995

2. ‘The 8051 Microcontroller: architecture, programming, and applications’

–         AYALA K J

–         West Publishing, 1991

3. ‘The 8051 Microcontroller: hardware, software and interfacing’

–         STEWART J W.

–         Regents/Prentice Hall, 1993

4. ‘Programming and interfacing the 8051 Microcontroller’

–         YERALAN S, AHLUWALIA A

–         Addison-Wesley,1995

‘Matlab 6.1 - Reference Manual’