Module - 1 ARM-32 bit Microcontroller : Thumb-2 technology and applications of ARM, Architecture of ARM Cortex M3, Various Units in the architecture, Debugging support, General Purpose Registers, Special Registers, exceptions, interrupts, stack operation, reset sequence (Chapter - 1) Module 2 : ARM Cortex M3 Instruction Sets and Programming : Assembly basics, Instruction list and description, Thumb and ARM instructions, Special instructions, Useful instructions, CMSIS, Assembly and C language Programming. (Chapter - 2) Module 3 : Embedded System Components : Embedded Vs General computing system, Classification of Embedded systems, Major applications and purpose of ES. Elements of an Embedded System (Block diagram and explanation), Differences between RISC and CISC, Harvard and Princeton, Big and Little Endian formats, Memory (ROM and RAM types), Sensors, Actuators, Optocoupler, Communication Interfaces (, SPI, IrDA, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, Zigbee only). (Chapter - 3) Module 4 : Embedded System Design Concepts : Characteristics and Quality Attributes of Embedded Systems, Operational and non-operational quality attributes, Embedded Systems-Application and Domain specific, Hardware Software Co-Design and Program Modeling (excluding UML), Embedded firmware design and development (excluding C language). (Chapter - 4) 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, Preemptive Task scheduling techniques, Task Communication, 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. (Chapter - 5)
