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CURRICULUM & SYLLABUS

MASTER OF TECHNOLOGYin

EMBEDDED SYSTEM TECHNOLOGY

(For students admitted in 2008-09 and afterwards)

DEPARTMENT OF ECE

Faculty of Engineering and Technology, SRM University

SRM Nagar, Kattankulathur 603203, Kancheepuram District, Tamilnadu


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DEPARTMENT OF ECE

Faculty of Engineering and Technology, SRM University

SRM Nagar, Kattankulathur 603203, Kancheepuram District, Tamilnadu

M.TECH - EMBEDDED SYSTEM TECHNOLOGY (FULL TIME)

Curriculum & Syllabus

(For students admitted in 2008-09 and afterwards)

GUIDELINES FOR SELECTING COURSES

SI.

No.Category

No. of Courses

I Semester II Semester III Semester IV Semester

1 Core Courses 3 3 - -

2 Elective Courses 1 1 3 -

3 Supportive Courses 1 1 - -

4 Seminar - - 1 -

5 Project Work* - - 1* 1**

* Main Project - Phase I ** Main Project - Phase II

CORE COURSES

Code No. Course Title L T P C

EM0501 Advanced Digital System Design 3 1 0 4

EM0502 Micro Controller System Design and Applications 3 0 3 4

EM0503 Digital Signal Processing 3 1 0 4

EM0504 Advanced Microprocessors & Micro controllers Design 3 1 0 4

EM0505

or

EM0506

Embedded system software in C

or

Advanced Embedded Systems

3 1 0 4

EM0507

or

EM0508

VLSI Architecture and Design Methodologies

or

VHDL

3 0 3 4

PROGRAM ELECTIVES

Code No. Course Title L T P C

EM0551 Real Time Operating Systems 3 0 0 3

EM0552 Embedded Communication Software Design 3 0 0 3

EM0553 Architecture and Design of Distributed Embedded System 3 0 0 3

EM0554 Software Modeling For Embedded Systems 3 0 0 3

EM0555 Data Communication and Networking 3 0 0 3

EM0556 Embedded Networking 3 0 0 3

EM0557 Cryptography and Network Security 3 0 0 3

EM0558 Wireless & Mobile Communication 3 0 0 3

EM0559 Embedded Wireless Sensor Networks 3 0 0 3

EM0560 Embedded Control Systems 3 0 0 3

EM0561 Intelligent Systems 3 0 0 3

EM0562 Operating Systems 3 0 0 3

EM0563 Computer Architecture 3 0 0 3

EM0564 Digital Image Processing 3 0 0 3

EM0565 Multimedia Systems 3 0 0 3


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EM0566 FPGA based Systems 3 0 0 3

EM0567 DSP Integrated Circuits 3 0 0 3

VL0558 System-on-Chip-Design 3 0 0 3

EM0569 Advanced Computer Architecture 3 0 0 3

EM0573 Advanced FPGA Design 3 0 0 3

SUPPORTIVE COURSES

Course

code Course Title L T P CMA0513 Applied Mathematics 3 0 0 3

EM0509 Real Time Systems 3 0 0 3

OTHER COURSES

Course code Course Title L T P C

EM0601 Project work Phase I 0 0 12 6

EM0602 Project work Phase II 0 0 36 18

EM0603 Seminar 0 0 2 1


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EM0501 ADVANCED DIGITAL SYSTEM DESIGN L T P C

Pre-requisite: Nil 3 1 0 4

PURPOSELearning design of digital circuits is a fundamental necessity for designing embedded systems. This subject

provides necessary instruments to achieve that goal.

INSTRUCTIONAL OBJECTIVESTo make the student learn: theory of logic and logic functions, design of digital circuits, and an introduction to VHDL

language.

SYLLABUS CONTENTS

COMBINATIONAL LOGIC FUNCTIONSBinary codes, Symmetric functions, Synthesis of symmetric networks, Identification of symmetric functions,

Introductory concepts of Threshold Logic, Decoders, Encoders, Multiplexers, Implementing functions using

Multiplexers, Demultiplexers, Magnitude Comparators, Parity Generators and Checkers, Signed Binary

Arithmetic, Binary Adders and Subtractors, BCD Adders.

COUNTERS- SHIFT REGISTERS AND STATE MACHINES

Digital counters and shift registers, Mealy machine, Moore machine, State diagrams, State table minimization,Incompletely Specified Sequential Machines- State Assignments.

PROGRAMMABLE LOGIC DEVICESBasic concepts, Programming technologies, Programmable Logic Element (PLE), Programmable Logic Array

(PLA), Programmable Array Logic (PAL), Structure of standard PLDs, complex PLDs (CPLD). Design of

combinational and sequential circuits using PLD's, Introduction to Field Programmable Gate Arrays-types of

FPGA- XILINX XC 3000 series and 4000 series FPGAs. Altera CPLDs- Altera FLEX 10K Series CPLDs.

Design examples.

FINITE STATE MACHINES (FSM)State transition table- state assignment for FPGAs, State Machine Charts, Derivation of SM Charts, Realization

of SM charts, Linked state machines. Encoded state machines, Architectures centered around Non-registeredPLDs. State machine designs centered around shift registers. One-hot design method, Application of one-hot

method.

DIGITAL DESIGN WITH VHDLBasic Concepts: Data Objects, Data Types, Operators, Concurrent and Sequential Assignment Statements,

Different Styles of Modeling, Simple Examples.

REFERENCE BOOKS

1. M.Morris Mano, Digital logic and Computer Design, PHI, 1979.

2. Charles.H.Roth, Jr, Digital Systems Design using VHDL, PWS Publishing Company, 2001.

3. R.F. Tinder, Engineering Digital Design, Academic Press, 2000.

4. Zvi Kohavi, Switching and Finite Automata Theory, Tata McGraw Hill, 1978.

5. William I.Fletcher,An Engineering Approach to Digital Design, Prentice Hall of India,1996.


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EM0502MICROCONTROLLER SYSTEM DESIGN AND

APPLICATIONSL T P C


PURPOSEAlmost all embedded systems are designed with microcontrollers as an essential basic part. This subject provides

basic knowledge of typical microcontrollers.

INSTRUCTIONAL OBJECTIVESTo make the student learn: two typical microcontrollers and how to use it in pratical applications. The lab component

gives hands on training on the design, development and microcontroller applications.

SYLLABUS CONTENT

8051 ARCHITECTUREBasic organization 8051 CPU structure Register file Interrupts Timers Port circuits Instruction set

Timing diagram Addressing modes Simple Program and Applications.

PERIPHERALS AND INTERFACINGTypical Bus structure Bus memory organization Timing characteristics Extended Model and Memory

Interfacing Polling Interfacing Basic I/O devices Analog and Digital interfacing PWM mode operation

Serial port application.

80196 ARCHITECTURECPU operation Interrupt structure Timers High Speed Input / Output Ports I/O control and Status registers

Instruction Set Addressing Modes Simple Programming Queues Tables and Strings Stack Memories Key

Switch Parsing.

PERIPHERALS AND INTERFACINGAnalog Interface Serial Ports Watch dog timers Real Time Clock Multitasking Bus Control Memory

Timing External ROM and RAM expansion PWM control A/D interfacing.

CASE STUDIES FOR 8051 AND 80196Real Time clock DC Motor Speed Control Generation of Gating Signals for Converters and Inverters Frequency

Measurement Temperature Control

REFERENCE BOOKS

1. Ayala, Kenneth, The 8051 Microcontroller, Upper Saddle River, New Jersey Prentice Hall, 2000.

2. Intel manual on 16 bit embedded controllers, Santa Clara, 1991.

3. Muhammad Ali Mazidi, Janice Gillispie Mazidi., The 8051 Microcontroller and Embedded systems, Person

Education, 2004.

4. Michael Slater, Microprocessor based design - A comprehensive guide to effective Hardware design, Prentice

Hall, New Jersey, 1989.


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EM0503 DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING L T P C


PURPOSEDigital signal processing has become a part of many embedded systems. Hence this subject on DSP techniques

is given here.

INSTRUCTIONAL OBJECTIVESTo make the student learn: theory of DSP, design of digital signal processing applications and an introduction to DSP

processors.

SYLLABUS CONTENT

DISCRETE TIME SIGNALS AND SYSTEMSRepresentation of discrete time signal classifications Discrete time system Basic operations on sequence

linear Time invariant causal stable solution to difference equation convolution sum correlation Discrete

time Fourier series Discrete time Fourier transform.

FOURIER AND STRUCTURE REALIZATIONDiscrete Fourier transform properties Fast Fourier transform Z-transform structure realization Direct form

lattice structure for FIR filter Lattice structure for IIR Filter.

FILTERSFIR Filter windowing technique optimum equiripple linear phase FIR filter IIR filter Bilinear transformation

technique impulse invariance method Butterworth filter Tchebycheff filter.

MULTISTAGE REPRESENTATIONSampling of band pass signal anti aliasing filter Decimation by an integer factor interpolation by an integer

factor sampling rate conversion implementation of digital filter banks sub-band coding Quadrature mirror

filter A/D conversion Quantization coding D/A conversion Introduction to wavelets.

DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSORSFundamentals of fixed point DSP architecture Fixed point number representation and computation Fundamentalsof floating point DSP architecture floating point number representation and computation study of TMS 320 C

54XX processor Basic programming addition subtraction multiplication convolution correlation study ofTMS 320 F2XXX processor Basic programming convolution correlation.

REFERENCE BOOKS

1. John G. Proakis, Dimitris, G. Manolakis, Digital Signal Processing: Principles, Algorithms and

Applications, PHI.

2. S.Salivahanan, A.Vallavaraj and C.Gnanapriya, Digital Signal Processing, TMH, 2000.

3. A.V. Oppenheim and R.W.Schafer, Englewood, Digital Signal Processing, Prentice-Hall Inc, 1975.

4. 4. Rabiner and Gold, Theory and Application of Digital Signal Processing, A comprehensive, Industrial

Strength DSP reference book.

5. B.Venkatramani & M.Bhaskar, Digital Signal Processors architecture, programming and applications,TMH, 2002.


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EM0506 ADVANCED EMBEDDED SYSTEMS L T P C


PURPOSEThis subject provides all basic concepts of embedded systems and their implementation in C language.

INSTRUCTIONAL OBJECTIVESTo make the student learn, the embedded system implementation in C language.

SYLLABUS CONTENT

INTRODUCTION AND REVIEW OF EMBEDDED HARDWARETerminology Gates Timing diagram Memory Microprocessor buses Direct memory access Interrupts

Built interrupts Interrupts basis Shared data problems Interrupt latency - Embedded system evolution trends

Round-Robin Round Robin with interrupt function Rescheduling architecture algorithm.

REAL TIME OPERATING SYSTEMTask and Task states Task and data Semaphore and shared data operating system services Message queues

timing functions Events Memory management Interrupt routines in an RTOS environment Basic design using

RTOS.

EMBEDDED HARDWARE, SOFTWARE AND PERIPHERALSCustom single purpose processors: Hardware Combination Sequence Processor design RT level design

optimizing software: Basic Architecture Operation Programmers view Development Environment

ASIP Proce ssor Design Peripherals Timers, counters and watch dog timers UART Pulse width modulator

LCD controllers Key pad controllers Stepper motor controllers A/D converters Real time clock.

MEMORY AND INTERFACINGMemory write ability and storage performance Memory types composing memory Advance RAM interfacing

communication basic Microprocessor interfacing I/O addressing Interrupts Direct memory access Arbitration

multilevel bus architecture Serial protocol Parallel protocols Wireless protocols Digital camera example.

PROCESS MODELS AND HARDWARE SOFTWARE CO-DESIGN

Modes of operation Finite state machine HCFSL and state charts language state machine models Concurrentprocess model Concurrent process Communication among process Synchronization among process

Implementation - Data Flow model - Design technology- Automation synthesis Hardware & software co-simulation

IP cores Design Process Model.

REFERENCE BOOKS

1. David. E.Simon, An Embedded Software Primer, Pearson Education, 2001.

2. Frank Vahid and Tony Gwargie, Embedded System Design, John Wiley & sons, 2002.

3. Steve Heath, Embedded System Design, Elsevier, Second Edition, 2004.


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EM0507VLSI ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN

METHODOLOGIESL T P C


PURPOSEFPGA and ASICs have become a part of many embedded systems. In this subject we introduce FPGAs and some

basic principles needed for FPGA design.

INSTRUCTIONAL OBJECTIVESTo make the student learn to understand various FPGAs and ASIC.

SYLLABUS CONTENT

INTRODUCTIONOverview of digital VLSI design methodologies Trends in IC Technology Advanced Boolean algebra

Shannons expansion theorem Consensus theorem Octal designation- Run measure Buffer gates Gate

expander Reed Muller expansion Synthesis of multiple output combinational logic circuits by product map

method Design of static hazard free, dynamic hazard free logic circuits.

ANALOG VLSI AND HIGH SPEED VLSIIntroduction to analog VLSI realization of neural networks and switched capacitor filters Sub-micron technology

and GAs VLSI Technology.

PROGRAMMABLE ASICsAnti fuse static RAM EPROM and technology PREP bench marks Actel ACT Xilinx LCA Altera flex

Altera MAX DC & AC inputs and outputs Clock and power inputs Xilinx I/O blocks.

PROGRAMMABLE ASIC DESIGN SOFTWAREActel ACT Xilinx LCA Xilinx EPLD Altera MAX 5000 and 7000 Altera MAX 9000 design systems logic

synthesis half gate schematic entry Low level design language PLA tools EDIF CFI design representation.

LOGIC SYNTHESIS, SIMULATION AND TESTINGBasic features of VHDL language for behavioral modeling and simulation Summary of VHDL data types

Dataflow and structural modeling VHDL and logic synthesis Circuit and layout verification Types of simulation

Boundary scan test Fault simulation Automatic test pattern generation design examples.

REFERENCE BOOKS

1. William I.Fletcher, An Engineering Approach to Digital Design, Prentice Hall of India.

2. M.J.S. Smith, Application Specific Integrates Circuits, Addison Wesley Longman Inc. 1997.

3. Amar Mukharjee, Introduction to NMOS and CMOS VLSI System Design, Prentice Hall, 1986.

4. Fredrick J. Hill and Gerald R.Peterson, Computer Aided Logical Design with emphasis on VLSI, 4th

edition,

Wiley, 1993.


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EM0508 VHDL L T P C

Pre-requisite:Nil 3 0 0 3

PURPOSEAs FPGAs are becoming part of embedded systems, it is essential for an embedded system developer to know

VHDL. Hence this subject is offered.

INSTRUCTIONAL OBJECTIVESTo make the student learn, VHDL language, programming, its applications to make circuits.

SYLLABUS CONTENT

VHDL FUNDAMENTALSFundamental Concepts Modeling Digital Systems Domains and Levels of Modeling Modeling Languages

VHDL Modeling concepts Scalar Data Types and Operations Constants and variables Scalar Types Type

Classification Attributes and Scalar types Expressions and operators Sequential Statements If statements

Case statements Null Statements Loop statements Assertion and Report statements.

COMPOSITE DATA TYPES AND BASIC MODELING CONSTRUCTSArrays Unconstrained Array types Array Operations and Referencing Records Basic Modeling Constructs

Entity Declarations Architecture Bodies Behavioral Descriptions Structural Descriptions Design Processing.Case Study: A pipelined Multiplier Accumulator.

SUBPROGRAMS AND PACKAGESProcedures Procedure Parameters Concurrent Procedure Call Statements functions Overloading Visibility

of Declarations Packages and Use Clauses Package declarations Package bodies Use Clauses The

predefined Aliases - Aliases for data objects Aliases for Non-Data Items. Case Study: A Bit-Vector Arithmetic

Package.

SIGNALS, COMPONENTS, CONFIGURATIONSBasic Resolved signals IEEE Std_Logic_1164 Resolved subtypes Resolved signal parameters Generic

Constants Parameterizing behavior Parameterizing structure Components and Configurations Components

Configuring component Instances Configuration Specification Generate Statements generating iterativestructure Conditionally generating structures Configuration of generate Statements. Case Study: The DLX

Computer System.

ADTs AND FILESAccess Types Linked Data structures Abstract Data Types using Packages Files and Input/Output Files The

Package Textio Verilog. Case Study: Queuing Networks.

REFERENCE BOOKS

1. Peter J.Ashenden, The Designers Guide to VHDL, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, San Francisco,

Second Edition, May 2001.

2. Zainalabedin Navabi, VHDL Analysis and Modeling of Digital Systems, McGraw Hill International

Editions, Second Edition, 1998.

3. James M.Lee, Verilog Quick start, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Second Edition, 1999.


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EM0551 REAL TIME OPERATING SYSTEMS L T P C


PURPOSEThe use of real time operating systems has become a necessity to build complex embedded systems, this subject is

provided.

INSTRUCTIONAL OBJECTIVESTo make the student learn fundamentals of Operating Systems, implementation aspects of real time concepts and few

applications on RTOS.

SYLLABUS CONTENT

REVIEW OF OPERATING SYSTEMSBasic Principles System Calls Files Processes Design and Implementation of processes Communication

between processes Operating System structures.

DISTRIBUTED OPERATING SYSTEMSTopology Network types Communication RPC Client server model Distributed file system Design

strategies.

REAL TIME MODELS AND LANGUAGESEvent Based Process Based and Graph based Models Petrinet Models Real Time Languages RTOS Tasks

RT scheduling - Interrupt processing Synchronization Control Blocks Memory Requirements.

REAL TIME KERNELPrinciples Design issues Polled Loop Systems RTOS Porting to a Target Comparison and study of RTOS VX

works and COS Case studies.

RTOS APPLICATION DOMAINSRTOS for Image Processing Embedded RTOS for voice over IP RTOS for fault Tolerant Applications RTOS

for Control Systems.

REFERENCE BOOKS

1. Charles Crowley, Operating Systems-A Design Oriented approach, McGraw Hill 1997.

2. C.M. Krishna, Kang, G.Shin, Real Time Systems, McGraw Hill, 1997.

3. Tanenbaum, Distributed Operating Systems, Pearson Education.

4. Raymond J.A.Bhur, Donald L.Bailey, An Introduction to Real Time Systems, PHI 1999.


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EM0552 EMBEDDED COMMUNICATION SOFTWARE DESIGN L T P C


PURPOSEAs now embedded systems has to be designed with some communication facility to give interaction between

themselves and also the user, this course on communication software design is included in the curriculum.

INSTRUCTIONAL OBJECTIVESTo make the student learn: OSI layered architecture of communication systems, hardware software partitioning and

system to system communication design.

SYLLABUS CONTENT

INTRODUCTION TO COMMUNICATIONOSI Reference Model Communication Devices Communication Echo System Design Consideration Host Based

Communication Embedded Communication System OS Vs RTOS.

SOFTWARE PARTITIONINGLimitation of strict Layering Tasks & Modules Modules and Task Decomposition -Layer2 Switch Layer3

Switch / Routers Protocol Implementation Management Types Debugging Protocols.

TABLES & OTHER DATA STRUCTURESPartitioning of Structures and Tables Implementation Speeding Up access Table Resizing Table access

routines Buffer and Timer Management Third Party Protocol Libraries.

MANAGEMENT SOFTWAREDevice Management Management Schemes Router Management management of Sub System

Architecture Device to manage configuration System Start up and configuration.

MULTI BOARD COMMUNICATION SOFTWARE DESIGNMulti Board Architecture Single control Card and Multiple line Card Architecture Interface for Multi Board

software Failures and Fault Tolerance in Multi Board Systems Hardware independent development Using a

COTS Board Development Environment Test Tools.

REFERENCE BOOKS

1. Sridhar .T, Designing Embedded Communication Software, Elsevier publications, 2003.


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EM0554SOFTWARE MODELING FOR EMBEDDED

SYSTEMSL T P C


PURPOSETo introduce some C concepts relavant to embedded systems with 80x86 family as basis and UML.

INSTRUCTIONAL OBJECTIVESTo make the student learn: use of C language for embedded applications, real time UML concepts, co-design

methods.

SYLLABUS CONTENT

INTRODUCTION TO DATA REPRESENTATIONData representation Twos complement, fixed point and floating point number formats Low level programming in

C Primitive data types Functions recursive functions Pointers Structures Unions Dynamic memory

allocation File handling Linked lists.

PROGRAMMING IN ASSEMBLYC and assembly Programming in assembly Register usage conventions Typical use of addressing options

Instruction sequencing Procedure call and return Parameter passing Retrieving parameters Everything in passby value Temporary variables threads preemptive kernels system timer - scheduling.

OBJECT ORIENTED ANALYSISObject oriented analysis and design- Connecting the object model with the use case model Key strategies for object

identification UML basics.

UNIFIED MODELING LANGUAGEObject state behavior UML state charts Role of scenarios in the definition of behavior Timing diagrams

Sequence diagrams Event hierarchies types and strategies of operations Architectural design in UML

concurrency design threads in UML .

SOFTWARE / HARDWARE PARTITIONINGSoftware / Hardware partitioning - Co design overview - Co simulation, synthesis and verifications - Re-configurable

computing - System on Chip (SoC) and IP cores - Low-Power RT Embedded Systems - On-chip Networking .

REFERENCE BOOKS

1. Bruce Powel Douglas, Real time UML, second edition: Developing efficient objects for embedded

systems (The Addison Wesley Object technology series), 2nd

edition 1999, Addison Wesley.

2. Hassan Gomma, Designing concurrent, distributed, and real time applications with UML, Pearson

Education, 2000.

3. Daniel W.Lewis, Fundamentals of embedded software where C and assembly meet, PHI 2002.

4. Axel Jantsch, Nework on chips, Kluwar Academic publishers, 2003.

5. Youn-long, Steve Lin, Essential issues of SoC design, Springer 2006.

6. Steave Furber, ARM systemonchip architecture, Addison Wesley, 2000.


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EM0555 DATA COMMUNICATION AND NETWORKS L T P C


PURPOSETo introduce concepts of data communication networks.

INSTRUCTIONAL OBJECTIVESTo make the student learn, all parts of communication software in layered architecture.

SYLLABUS CONTENT

INTRODUCTIONComponents of network Topologies WAN / LAN OSI ISO layered Architecture - Modulation and

demodulation Bit error rates Line coding Error correcting codes.

DATA LINK LAYERDesign issues CRC technique and sliding window techniques Performance analysis of sliding window techniques

Framing formats Case Study HDLC protocols Medium access control CSMA / CD Token ring and

token bus FDDI Wireless LAN Performance analysis of MAC protocols Bridges.

NETWORK LAYERCircuit switching packet switching Design issues IP addressing and IP diagram Routers and gateways

Routing Sub netting CIDR ICMP ARP RARP IPv6 QoS.

TRANSPORT LAYERTCP and UDP Error handling and flow control Congestion control TCP Retransmission Timeout Socket

Abstraction.

APPLICATION SERVICESSimple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) File Transfer Protocols (FTP), telnet, the World Wide Web (WWW),

Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP), Domain name service (DNS), Security, Multimedia applications.

REFERENCE BOOKS

1. William Stallings, Data and Computer Communications, Seventh Edition, Prentice Hall, 2003.

2. Larry Peterson, Bruce S Davie, Computer Networks: A Systems Approach, Morgan KaufmannPublishers, 2ndEdition, 1999.

3. James F Kurose, Computer Networking: A Top Down Approach Featuring the Internet, Addison

Wesley, 2nd

Edition 2002.

4. W.Richard Stevens and Gary R Wright, TCP / IP Illustrated, Addison Wesley, Volume 1 & 2, 2001.


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EM0556 EMBEDDED NETWORKING L T P C


PURPOSETo introduce Controller Area Networking (CAN).

INSTRUCTIONAL OBJECTIVESTo make the student learn, understand CAN and design systems based on CAN.

SYLLABUS CONTENT

EMBEDDED NETWORK REQUIREMENTSEmbedded networking code requirements Communication requirements Introduction to CAN open CAN open

standard Object directory Electronic Data Sheets & Device Configuration files Service Data Objectives

Network management CAN open messages Device profile encoder.

CAN CONFIGURATIONCAN open configuration Evaluating system requirements choosing devices and tools Configuring single devices

Overall network configuration Network simulation Network Commissioning Advanced features and testing.

CONTROLLER AREA NETWORKController Area Network Underlying Technology CAN Overview Selecting a CAN Controller CAN

development tools.

MICRO CANImplementing CAN open Communication layout and requirements Comparison of implementation methods

Micro CAN open CAN open source code Conformance test Entire design life cycle.

IMPLEMENTATIONImplementation issues Physical layer Data types Object dictionary Communication object identifiers

Emerging objects Node states.

REFERENCE BOOKS

1. Glaf P.Feiffer, Andrew Ayre and Christian Keyold, Embedded Networking with CAN and CAN

open, Embedded System Academy 2005.


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EM0557 CRYPTOGRAPHY AND NETWORK SECURITY L T P C


PURPOSETo introduce the concepts of data security in communication networks which are widely used now with embedded

systems.

INSTRUCTIONAL OBJECTIVESTo make the student learn, security needs, data securing methods like cryptography, and network security aspects.

SYLLABUS CONTENT

SYMMETRIC CIPHERSOverview classical Encryption Techniques Block Ciphers and the Data Encryption standard Introduction to

Finite Fields Advanced Encryption standard Contemporary Symmetric Ciphers Confidentiality using Symmetric

Encryption.

PUBLIC-KEY ENCRYPTION AND HASH FUNCTIONSIntroduction to Number Theory Public-Key Cryptography and RSA Key Management Diffie-Hellman Key

Exchange Elliptic Curve Cryptography Message Authentication and Hash Functions Hash Algorithms DigitalSignatures and Authentication Protocols.

NETWORK SECURITY PRACTICEAuthentication Applications Kerbors X.509 Authentication Service Electronic mail Security Pretty Good

Privacy S/MIME IP Security architecture Authentication Header Encapsulating Security Payload Key

Management.

SYSTEM SECURITYIntruders Intrusion Detection Password Management Malicious Software Firewalls Firewall Design

Principles Trusted Systems.

WIRELESS SECURITYIntroduction to Wireless LAN Security Standards Wireless LAN Security Factors and Issues.

REFERENCE BOOKS

1. William Stallings, Cryptography and Network Security Principles and Practices, Pearson Education, 3rd

Edition, 2003.

2. Atul Kahate, Cryptography and Network Security, Tata McGraw Hill, 2003.

3. Bruce Schneier, Applied Cryptography, John Wiley and Sons Inc, 2001.

4. Stewart S. Miller, Wi-Fi Security, McGraw Hill, 2003.

5. Charles B. Pfleeger, Shari Lawrence Pfleeger, Security In Computing, 3rd Edition, Pearson Education,

2003.

6. Mai, Modern Cryptography: Theory and Practice, First Edition, Pearson Education, 2003.


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EM0559 EMBEDDED WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS L T P C


PURPOSETo make the student understand and apply the theory behind wireless sensor networks.

INSTRUCTIONAL OBJECTIVESTo impart students with wireless sensor network fundamentals.

SYLLABUS CONTENT

INTRODUCTIONEmbedded network systems representation of signals signal propagation sensor principles.

COMMUNICATIONSource detection and identification digital communications multiple source estimation and multiple access

communications.

NETWORKINGNetworking network position and synchronization services

NETWORK MANAGEMENTEnergy management data management articulation mobility and infrastructure.

NODES, DATA AND APPLICATIONNode architecture network data integrity experimental system design.

REFERENCE BOOKS

1. Gregory Pottie and William Waiger, Principles of Embedded Networked System Design, Cambridge

University Press, 2005.

2. Jr.Edger H. Callaway, Wireless Sensor Networks, CRC Press, 2004.


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EM0561 INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS L T P C


PURPOSEIntelligent system concepts are becoming more relevant for embedded systems. Hence this course is provided.

INSTRUCTIONAL OBJECTIVESTo make the student learn: Basic intelligent system concepts, neural networks, fuzzy logic and its implementation

methods.

SYLLABUS CONTENT

INTRODUCTION AND BASIC CONCEPTSIntroduction- Humans and Computers, the structure of the brain, learning in machines, the differences. The basic

neuron- Introduction, modeling the single neuron, learning in simple neurons, the perception: a vectorial perspective,

the perception learning rule, proof, limitations of perceptrons.

MULTILAYER NETWORKSThe multi layer perceptron: Introduction, altering the perception model, the new model, the new learning rule, multi

layer perception algorithm, XOR problem. Multi layer feed forward networks, error back propagation trainingalgorithm: problems with back propagation, Boltzman training, Cauchy training, combined back propagation, Cauchy

training.

RESONANT NETWORKS AND APPLICATIONSHop-field networks: recurrent and bi-directional associative memories, counter propagation network, Artificial

Resonance Theory (ART) Application of neural network: Hand written digit and character recognition- Traveling

sales man problem, a neuro controller.

FUZZY SET THEORYIntroduction to fuzzy set theory: Fuzzy set vs Crisp set, properties of fuzzy sets, operations on fuzzy set fuzzy

compliments, fuzzy intersection- T norms, fuzzy union- t- co-norm, fuzzy relations.

FUZZY LOGIC AND SYSTEMS

Fuzzy Logic: Classical logic multi valued logic, fuzzy propositions, fuzzy quantifiers, linguistic hedges and theirinferences. Fuzzy systems: fuzzy controllers, fuzzy systems and neural networks, fuzzy neural networks, fuzzy

automata, fuzzy dynamic system.

REFERENCE BOOKS

1. R Beale & T Jackson, Neural Computing, An Introduction, Adam Hilger, 1990.

2. G.J.Klir & Bo Yuan, Fuzzy Sets and Fuzzy Logic Theory and Applications, Prentice Hall of India, 1997.

3. Timothy S.Ross, Fuzzy Logic with engineering applications, McGraw Hill, 1997.

4. Kosko B, Neural Networks and Fuzzy Systems, Prentice Hall of India, 1994.

5. Zimmermann H.J, Fuzzy Set Theory and Its Applications, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1994.

6. Rao V.B and Rao H.V., C++, Neural Networks and Fuzzy Logic, BPB Publications, 1996.


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EM0562 OPERATING SYSTEMS L T P C


PURPOSEThis course gives in depth knowledge on operating systems which is essential for writing software for embedded

systems.

INSTRUCTIONAL OBJECTIVESTo make the student learn: Basic operating system concepts in detail, to make a few case studies.

SYLLABUS CONTENT

OPERATING SYSTEMS AND SERVICESProcesses CPU Scheduling approaches.

PROCESS SYNCHRONIZATIONSemaphores Deadlocks Handling deadlocks Multithreading.

MEMORY MANAGEMENT

Paging Segmentation Virtual memory Demand paging Replacement algorithms.

DISK SCHEDULING APPROACHESFile systems Design issues User interfaces to file systems I / O device management.

CASE STUDIESDesign and implementation of the UNIX OS, process model and Structure Memory management File system

UNIX I / O management and Device drivers Windows System components Process management Memory

management File systems Networking.

REFERENCE BOOKS

1. Abraham Silberschatz Peter B. Galvin, G.Gagne, Operating System Concepts, 6th

Edition, Wesley

Publishing company, 2003.

2. M.J.Bach, Design of the UNIX Operating System, Prentice Hall, 1986.


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EM0563 COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE L T P C


PURPOSETo introduce computer architecture to the student

INSTRUCTIONAL OBJECTIVESTo make the student learn, computer architectures.

SYLLABUS CONTENT

FUNDAMENTALS OF COMPUTER DESIGNReview of fundamentals of CPU, Memory and I/O Performance evaluation Instruction set principles Design

issues Example Architectures.

INSTRUCTION LEVEL PARALLELISMPipelining and handling hazards Dynamic Scheduling Dynamic hardware prediction Multiple issues Hardware

based speculation Limitations of ILP Case studies.

INSTRUCTION LEVEL PARALLELISM WITH SOFTWARE APPROACHESCompiler techniques for exposing ILP Static branch prediction VLIW & EPIC Advanced compiler support

Hardware support for exposing parallelism - Hardware versus software speculation mechanisms IA 64 and ltanium

processor.

MEMORY AND I/OCache performance Reducing cache miss penalty and miss rate Reducing hit time Main memory and

performance Memory technology. Types of storage devices Buses RAID Reliability, availability and

dependability I/O performance measures Designing an I/O system.

MULTIPROCESSORS AND THREAD LEVEL PARALLELISMSymmetric and distributed shared memory architectures Performance issues Synchronization Models ofmemory consistency Multithreading.

REFERENCE BOOKS

1. A.Kai Hwang, Advanced Computer architecture, Mcgraw Hill, Inc 1987.

2. Kai Hwang and Faye A.Briggs, Computer Architecture and Parallel Processing, McGraw-Hill 1989.

3. John L.Hennessey and David A.Patterson, Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach, Third

Edition, Morgan Kaufmann, 2003.

4. D.Sia, T.Fountain and P.Kacsuk, Advanced computer Architectures: A Design Space Approach, Addion

Wesley, 2000.


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EM0564 DIGITAL IMAGE PROCESSING L T P C

Pre-requisite: EM0503 3 0 0 3

PURPOSESince image processing is an upcoming embedded field wherein many small systems and robots are built with image

processing functions we give in this subject an idea of image processing concepts.

INSTRUCTIONAL OBJECTIVESTo make the student learn: Basic image processing operations and concepts, multi resolution analysis and to make a

few case studies.

SYLLABUS CONTENT

FUNDAMENTALS OF IMAGE PROCESSINGIntroduction Steps in image processing systems Image acquisition Sampling and Quantization Pixel

relationships Color fundamentals and models, File formats, Image operations Arithmetic, Geometric and

Morphological.

IMAGE ENHANCEMENT

Spatial Domain: Gray level Transformations Histogram processing Spatial filtering smoothing and sharpening.Frequency Domain: Filtering in frequency domain DFT, FFT, DCT Smoothing and sharpening filters

Homomorphic Filtering.

IMAGE SEGMENTATION AND FEATURE ANALYSISDetection of Discontinuities Edge operators Edge linking and Boundary Detection Thresholding Region based

segmentation Morphological Watersheds Motion Segmentation, Feature Analysis and Extraction.

MULTI RESOLUTION ANALYSIS AND COMPRESSIONSMulti Resolution Analysis: Image Pyramids Multi resolution expansion Wavelet Transforms. Image compression:

Fundamentals Models Elements of Information Theory Error free compression Lossy Compression

Compression Standards.

APPLICATIONS OF IMAGE PROCESSING

Image classification Image recognition Image understanding Video motion analysis Image fusion Steganography Digital compositing Mosaics Color Image Processing.

REFERENCE BOOKS

1. Rafael C. Gonzalez and Richard E. Woods, Digital Image Processing, 2nd

Edition, Pearson Eduction, 2003.

2. Anil K. Jain, Fundamentals of Digital Image Processing, Pearson Education, 2003.

3. Milan Sonka, Vaclav Hlavac and Roger Boyle, Image Processing, Analysis and Machine Vision, 2nd

Edition,

Thomson Learning, 2001.


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EM0565 MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS L T P C


PURPOSEMultimedia applications are coming in to the arena of embedded systems. With future applications in mind this

course on multi media systems is offered.

INSTRUCTIONAL OBJECTIVESTo make the student learn: Multimedia principles, Knowledge and user understanding, and text, sound and image

applications.

SYLLABUS CONTENT

MULTIMEDIAIntroduction Multimedia modalities, Channels and Medium Interaction Communicative Interaction Objects

and Agents Channels of Communication Artificial Languages Natural Communication Meta-languages

Components of Interactive Multimedia Systems.

KNOWLEDGE AND USER UNDERSTANDING

Knowledge Basic idea of knowledge A working definition Knowledge representation Knowledge Elicitation Know about user applying user knowledge acquiring user knowledge User profiling User modelling.

INTERACTION, INTERFACE & SEMIOTICSTraditional HCI Modalities and the interface Interface channels Functionality and usability Visual appearance

and Graphic design Multimedia content Semiotics Idea of a Sign Complex Signs Semiotics and Media.

TEXT AND SOUNDVisual Perception of Text Images on Page Meaning and Text Readability Text and the Screen Modality of

Sound Channels of Communication Combining Sound Channels Technology of Sound MIDI.

IMAGESPsychology of vision Representational Images Juxtaposition of Images Perception of Motion Constructing aShot Shots into narrative Modern languages of film and television.

REFERENCE BOOKS

1. Mark Elsom-Cook, Principles of Interactive Multimedia, McGraw Hill, International Edition 2001.


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EM0566 FPGA BASED DESIGN L T P C


PURPOSEThe role of FPGAs and ASIC are perceived to be enormous in embedded systems and hence this subject is offered.

INSTRUCTIONAL OBJECTIVESTo make the student learn, FPGA fundamentals, design and implementation of circuits in them.

SYLLABUS CONTENT

INTRODUCTION TO ASICS, CMOS LOGIC AND ASIC LIBRARY DESIGNTypes of ASICs Design Flow CMOS transistors, CMOS design rules Combinational Logic Cell Sequential

logic cell Data path logic cell Transistors as Resistors Transistor Parasitic Capacitance Logical effort

Library cell design Library architecture.

PROGRAMMABLE LOGIC CELLS AND I/O CELLSAnti fuse static RAM EPROM and EEPROM technology PREP bench marks Actel ACT Xilinx LCA

Altera FLEX Altera MAX DC & AC inputs and outputs Clock and power inputs Xilinx I/O blocks.

INTERCONNECTS AND ASIC DESIGN SOFTWAREActel ACT Xilinx LCA Xilinx EPLD Altera MAX 5000 and 7000 Altera MAX 9000 Altera FLEX Design

systems Logic Synthesis Half Gate ASIC Schematic entry Low level design language PLA tools EDIF

CFI design representation.

LOGIC SYNTHESIS, SIMULATION AND TESTINGVerilog and logic synthesis VHDL and logic synthesis - Types of simulation Boundary scan test Fault

simulation Automatic test pattern generation Built-in self test.

FLOOR PLANNING, PLACEMENT AND ROUTINGSystem partition FPGA partitioning partitioning methods floor planning placement physical design flow

global routing detailed routing special routing circuit extraction DRC.

REFERENCE BOOKS

1. M.J.S. SMITH, Application Specific Integrated Circuits, Addison Wesley Longman Inc., 1997.

2. Wolf Wayne, FPGA Based System Design, Pearson Education India, 2004.

3. Mohammed Ismail and Terri Fiez, Analog VLSI Signal and Information Processing, McGraw Hill, 1994.

4. Design manuals of Altera, Xilinx and Actel. (From the web).


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EM0567 DSP INTEGRATED CIRCUITS L T P C

Pre-requisites: EM0503 and EM0507/EM0508 3 0 0 3

PURPOSETo make the implementation of DSP ICs in VLSI.

INSTRUCTIONAL OBJECTIVESTo make the student learn, implementation of DSP in VLSI.

SYLLABUS CONTENT

DSP ICs AND VLSI CIRCUIT TECHNOLOGIESStandard digital signal processors, Application specific ICs for DSP, DSP systems, DSP system design, Integrated

circuit design. MOS transistors, MOS logic, VLSI process technologies, Trends in CMOS technologies.

DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSINGDigital signal processing, Sampling of analog signals, Selection of sample frequency, Signal-processing systems,

Frequency response, Transfer functions, Signal flow graphs, Filter structures, Adaptive DSP algorithms, DFT-The

Discrete Fourier Transform, FFT-The Fast Fourier Transform Algorithm, Image coding, Discrete cosine transforms.

DIGITAL FILTERS AND FINITE WORD LENGTH EFFECTSFIR filters, FIR filter structures, FIR chips, IIR filters, Specifications of IIR filters, Mapping of analog transfer

functions, Mapping of analog filter structures, Multirate systems, Interpolation with an integer factor L, Sampling rate

change with a ratio L/M, Multirate filters. Finite word length effects -Parasitic oscillations, Scaling of signal levels,

Round-off noise, Measuring round-off noise, Coefficient sensitivity, Sensitivity and noise.

DSP ARCHITECTURES AND THEIR SYNTHESISDSP system architectures, Standard DSP architecture, Ideal DSP architectures, Multiprocessors and multicomputers,

Systolic and Wave front arrays, Shared memory architectures. Mapping of DSP algorithms onto hardware,

Implementation based on complex PEs, Shared memory architecture with Bit serial PEs.

ARITHMETIC UNITS AND INTEGRATED CIRCUIT DESIGNConventional number system, Redundant Number system, Residue Number System. Bit-parallel and Bit-Serial

arithmetic, Basic shift accumulator, Reducing the memory size, Complex multipliers, Improved shift-accumulator.Layout of VLSI circuits, FFT processor, DCT processor and Interpolator as case studies.

REFERENCE BOOKS

1. Lars Wanhammer, DSP Integrated Circuits, 1999 Academic press, New York

2. Keshab K.Parhi, VLSI digital Signal Processing Systems design and Implementation, John Wiley &

Sons, 1999.

3. A.V.Oppenheim et.al, Discrete-time Signal Processing, Pearson education, 2000.

4. Emmanuel C. Ifeachor, Barrie W. Jervis, Digital signal processing A practical approach, Second

edition, Pearson education, Asia.


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VL0558 SYSTEM ON CHIP DESIGN L T P C


PURPOSEIP cores and application specific design is becoming the order of the day. Because of usefulness of this for both VLSI

and embedded students this subject is provided.

INSTRUCTIONAL OBJECTIVESTo make the student learn System-on-chip fundamentals, their applications and On-chip networking methods.

SYLLABUS CONTENT

Part-A: SOC

SOC fundamentalsEssential issues of SoC design A SoC for Digital still camera multimedia IP development : Image and video

codecs.

SOC software and energy managementSoC embedded software energy management techniques for SoC design.

Part- B: On-chip networking

System design and methodologyDesign methodology for NOC based systems Mapping concurrent application onto architectural platforms.

Hardware and basic infrastructurePacket switched network for on-chip communication energy reliability tradeoff for NoCs clocking strategies

parallel computer as a NoCs region.

Software and application interfacesMP-SoC from software to hardware NoC APIs multilevel software validation for NoC Software for network on

chip

REFERENCE BOOKS

1. Axel Jantsch, Hannu Tenhunen, Network on chips, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2003.

2. Youn-Long, Steve Lin, Essential Issues of SoC Design: Designing Complex Systems-On-Chip, Springer,2006.


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EM0569 ADVANCED COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE L T P C

Pre-requisites: Nil 3 0 0 3

PURPOSETo introduce the computer architecture concepts.

INSTRUCTIONAL OBJECTIVESTo make the student familiarize various processors, fundamentals of computer design, various parallel and pipeline

architectures and software required for parallel programming.

PROCESSORS AND MEMORY HIERARCHYMultiprocessors and Multicomputers Multivector and SIMD computers Architectural Development Tracks

Processors and Memory Hierarchy Advanced Processor Technology Superscalar and vector Processor Memory

Hierarchy technology-Virtual memory technology.

FUNDAMENTALS OF COMPUTER DESIGNElements of modern computers-System attributes to performance-Bus, Cache and Shared memory-Bus Systems

Cache Memory Organizations Shared memory Organization Sequential and weak consistency models.

PARALLEL AND SCALABLE ARCHITECTURESMultiprocessor System Interconnects Cache Coherence and Synchronization Mechanisms Message-Passing

Mechanisms Vector Processing Principles Multivector Multiprocessors Performance-Directed Design Rules

Fujitsu VP2000 and VPP500 SIMD Computer Organizations Implementation models The MasPar MP-1

Architecture-Latency - Hiding Techniques Principles of Multithreading Scalable and Multithreaded Architectures

- The Tera Multiprocessor System.

PIPELINING AND SUPERSCALAR TECHNIQUES:Introduction Basics of a RISC Instruction set Implementation of five stage Pipeline for a RISC processor

Performance issues hurdle of pipelining simple implementation of MIPS extending the MIPS pipeline to handle

multicycle operations cross cutting issues.

SOFTWARE FOR PARALLEL PROGRAMMING:

Parallel programming models parallel languages and compilers code optimization and scheduling scalaroptimization with basic blocks code generation and scheduling trace scheduling compilation parallelization and

wave fronting software pipelining parallel programming environments Y-MP, Paragon and CM-5 environments

synchronization and multiprocessing modes principles of synchronization - multiprocessor execution modes

shared-variable program structures locks for protected access semaphores and applications message-passing

program development.

REFERENCE BOOKS

1. Kai Hwang & Naresh Jotwani, Advanced Computer Architecture, McGraw Hill, Inc. 2011.

2. John L. Hennessey and David A. Patterson, Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach, Third Edition,

Morgan Kaufmann, 2003.


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EM0573 ADVANCED FPGA DESIGN L T P C

Pre-requisites: Nil 3 0 0 3

PURPOSETo introduce VLSI design concepts to the students

INSTRUCTIONAL OBJECTIVESTo make the student learn the fundamentals of various FPGA architectures, design flow using FPGA and

programming.

INTRODUCTION TO ASICs, CMOS LOGIC AND ASIC LIBRARY DESIGNTypes of ASICs - Design Flow - CMOS transistors, CMOS design rules - Combinational Logic Cell - Sequential

logic cell - Data path logic cell - transistors as resistors - transistor parasitic capacitance - Logical effort - Library cell

design - Library architecture.

PROGRAMMABLE LOGIC CELLS AND I/O CELLSDigital clock Managers-Clock management- Regional clocks- Block RAM Distributed RAM-Configurable Logic

Blocks-LUT based structures Phase locked loops- Select I/O resources Anti fuse - static RAM - EPROM and

EEPROM technology

DEVICE ARCHITECTURESDevice Architecture-Spartan 6 -Vertex 4 architecture- Altera Cyclone and Quartus architectures.

DESIGN ENTRY AND TESTINGVerilog and VHDL -logic synthesis - Types of simulation Faults- Fault simulation - Boundary scan test -

Automatic test pattern generation. Built-in self test. scan test.

FLOOR PLANNING, PLACEMENT AND ROUTINGSystem partition - FPGA partitioning - partitioning methods - floor planning - placement - physical design flow -

global routing - detailed routing - special routing - circuit extraction - DRC.

REFERENCE BOOKS

1. M.J.S. SMITH, "Application Specific Integrated Circuits", Addison Wesley Longman Inc., 1997

2. Wolf Wayne, "FPGA Based System Design", Pearson Education.

3. Design manuals of Altera, Xilinx and Actel.


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