Embedded systems overview, Design challenges and optimizing design metrics, Process/design technologies, Embedded system design tradeoffs and design productivity gap, Microprocessor and microcontroller architectures.

Combinational and sequential logic, Custom single-purpose processor design, Register transfer level customization and its optimization methods, Standard single-purpose processors.

General-purpose architecture and operations, programmer’s view of the architecture, Embedded systems programming, Application specific instruction-set processors, Selecting microprocessors, General purpose processor design.

Models vs. languages, text vs. graphics, Finite-state machine models and finite-state machines (FSM) with datapath models (FSMD), Hierarchical/concurrent state machine models (HCFSM) and the Statecharts language, Program-state machine model (PSM), Concurrent processes and communication and synchronization among processes, Dataflow model.

Design automation and synthesis – logic, RTL and behavioural, Reusability and Intellectual Property (IP) cores, Design process models.

System synthesis and hardware/software co-design, hardware/software co-simulation for verification.

Types of OS/software construction methods and their merits/demerits, Requirements places on embedded OS, Real-time embedded OS – requirements and scheduling.

User’s perspective, Designer’s perspective, Informal and formal specifications, Design and implementation.

Design and Implementation of a FPGA based project incorporating CPU and peripherals

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