Embedded System Design

Introduction to embedded system, components, characteristics, applications. Intel 8051/8031 Micro-controller: Features of the 8051/8031 family, block diagram and definitions of the pin of the 8051, I/O port structure, memory organisation: general purpose RAM, bit addressable RAM, register bank, special function registers, external memory, memory space mapping and decoding, bus control signals timing, a typical 8051 micro-controller based system. Instruction Set and Assembly Language Programming: Addressing modes, the 8051 instruction set and typical examples, assembler operation, assembly language format, assembler directives, operation of assemblers and linkers, programming examples. On-chip Peripheral Devices: I/O ports, operations and uses of port 0, port 1, port 2, port 3, timers: their operations, programming, and applications, serial port: operations and programming, typical applications, serial port interrupt. Interfacing to external memory, keypad, seven-segment LED display, ADC and DAC chips, and input / output port expansion, description and uses of hardware development tools.

MOTOROLA M6811 Micro-controller: Features of the M6811 family, block diagram and definitions of the pin of the M6811, I/O port structure, memory organisation: general purpose RAM, bit addressable RAM, register bank, special function registers, external memory, memory space mapping and decoding, bus control signals timing. Instruction Set and Assembly Language Programming. Onchip peripheral devices and I/O interfacing. Introduction to PIC microcontroller: general architecture, applications and selection of microcontroller, advantages, low-end, and high performance PIC. Specific PIC microcontrollers: Features, architecture, block diagram, pin configuration, on-chip memory, and peripheral. Instruction set and Assembly language programming. Serial I/O interfacing: I2C, and SPI interfacing and programming. Memory interfacing: external memory interfacing, EEPROM and Flash memory interfacing. Design exercises using development system.