Module1: Introduction: 4 Hours
Introduction to software design: Requirements, specifications, structural and behavioral descriptions, UML Embedded Processors: Risc, super scalar, and VLIW architectures, ARM and SHARC, Processor and memory organization and Instruction level parallelism.

Module 2: Processor Design, Peripherals and Bus protocols: 9 Hours
Single Purpose processor design, General purpose processor design. Different aspects of processor design, Designing data path, control unit. CPU architectures: Input/Output, interrupts, modes, cache memories Embedded bus architectures: Bus architectures and transactions, Serial interconnects, Networked embedded systems: Bus protocols, I2C bus, CAN bus, AMBA bus, Ethernet, SerDes Internet-Enabled Systems, Design Example-Elevator Controller.


Module 3: Program design and analysis: 4 Hours
Compilers and optimization. Testing. Performance Analysis. Operating Systems Tasks, context switches, Operating system support (inter-process communication, networking), Scheduling, Development environment.

Module 4: Hardware Accelerators: 3 Hours
FPGA architectures , RISC IP Cores , Verilog HDL Embedded System Application, design challenge – optimizing design metrics, processor technology, design technology

Module 5: Real Time-Operating System: 5 Hours
System modeling, static scheduling, Priority drive scheduling, Synchronization & mutual exclusion (real-time and non-real-time) H/W and S/W co-design embedded multiprocessor DSP Algorithm Design: A/D conversion and finite precision analysis, Algorithms for embedded systems: source and channel processing, Portable embedded code. Low Power architectures for embedded systems

Module 6: ARM Processor Programming: 9 Hours
Introduction to ARM architecture, RISC design philosophy, Registers, Pipeline, Current program status register, Exceptions, Interrupts, ARM instruction set, Design examples.

To design single purpose and general purpose processor design

To study the peripherals, bus protocol and memory subsystems

To develop skills and get knowledge about designing embedded system.

CO1: Learn the knowledge of designing computing architectures used in embedded system.
CO2: Learn about the peripherals and memory subsystems used in designing embedded systems, and understand the bus protocols such as ISA, CAN, LIN, I2C, AMBA etc.
CO3: Apply the knowledge of ARM processor architecture to design embedded products.
CO4: Create the knowledge of Real Time Operating Systems to build and design efficient embedded products.
CO5: Implement practical and state of the art of Embedded system design, suitable for real life and
Industry applications.

W. Wolf, Computers as Components : Principles of Embedded Computer System Design, Second Edition, Elsevier/MK, 2005

F. Vahid and T. Givargis, Embedded System Design: A Unified Hardware/Software Introduction, Wiley, 2002.

P. Marwedel, , Embedded System Design, Springer, 2006.

Steve Heath, Embedded Systems Design 2nd Edition, 2002