Embedded Systems Course Content
2. What are real time systems?
3. Processor Architectures
- CISC Versace RISC
- Von Neumann Versace Harvard architecture
- Memory Mapped I/O Versace I/O mapped I/O
- Internal memory Versace External Memory
- Understanding the processor architecture of TI DSP C5402
- Interrupt, Interrupt Vector Table, ISR
- Interrupt Masking Versace Disabling
- Bootup sequence of C5402
4.C language fundamentals in context of embedded s/w
5. What is the difference b/w general purpose OS & RTOS
6.RTOS concepts
- Difference b/w Process and Thread
- Multiprocessing Versace Multithreading
- Priorities
- Preemptive Versace Non Preemptive OS
- Interprocess communication
- Process/thread synchronization primitives (Semaphores)
- Device Drivers
- Memory Management
- Task execution states & scheduling
- Stack Frame in C
- Heap
- Context & context switching
- Deadlock
7. Embedded s/w engineering
- Image formats (COFF, elf)
