Course details
Design of External Adapters and Embedded Systems
NAV Acad. year 2012/2013 Summer semester 5 credits
The themes of lectures deal with problems that must be solved by a designer during the design of components of a peripheral device adapter. Students will become acquainted with the principles of I/O bus system operation and the communication with adapters (communication with memory components, registers, interrupt request generation and its service, DMA request generation and its service). The principles of component design (synthesis) for peripheral operation control will be discussed. The laboratory tutorials will be directed towards the presentation of these principles on a computer structure and on the design of external adapter components and external adapter design in a design system environment.
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Time span
- 26 hrs lectures
- 16 hrs laboratories
- 10 hrs projects
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Subject specific learning outcomes and competences
Students will become acquainted with the principles of digital systems design with complex sequential behaviour reflecting the conditions in which the application will operate. They will learn how an implementation will be subdivided between software and hardware components. They will become acquainted with tools to support designer. They will learn how to design controllers of external adapters of basic peripheral devices and independently operating computer systems operating in real environment and communicating with a user or systems on higher level.
Learning objectives
To develop knowledge gained in courses from the area of computer systems construction and demonstrate these principles in the field of external adapters design and embedded saystems design. To utilise this knowledge in the design and implementation of complex digital systems with comprehensive sequential behaviour. Students will be taught how to analyse the conditions in which the equipment under design will operate and on the basis of the analysis how to identify the trade-off between price, reliability and dynamic parameters. In laboratory tutorials students will study the structure and operation principles of external adapters and embedded systems components and their design in design system environment.
Recommended prerequisites
Prerequisite knowledge and skills
There are no prerequisites
Fundamental literature
- Miroslav Šnorek, Karel Richta: Připojování periferií k PC, Grada Publishing, 1996, ISBN 80-7169-146-1, 303 stran
- Tom Shanley, Don Anderson: PCI System Architecture, Addison Wesley, 1999, ISBN 0201309742, 833 stran
- Tom Shanley: PCI-X System Architecture, Addison Wesley, 2000, ISBN 0201726823, 688 stran
- Ravi Budruk, Don Anderson, Tom Shanley, PCI Express System Architecture, Addison Wesley, 2003, ISBN 0321156307, 1056 stran
- Don Anderson: Universal Serial Bus System Architecture, Addison Wesley, 2001, ISBN 0201309750, 544 stran
- Jonathan Corbet, Alessandro Rubini, Greg Kroah-Hartman: Linux Device Drivers, 3rd Edition, O'Reilly Media, 2005, ISBN-10: 0596005903, 640 stran
- Jonathan W. Valvano: Embedded Microcomputer Systems, Real Time Interfacing. Brooks/Cole, 2000, ISBN 0-534-36642-2.
- Ken Arnold: Embedded Controller Hardware Design. LLH Technology Publishing, 2001, ISBN 1-878707-52-3.
- Stuart R. Ball: Embedded Microprocessor Systems: Real World Design. Newnes, 2002, ISBN 0-7506-7534-9.
Syllabus of lectures
Syllabus of laboratory exercises
- The communication with an external adapter through ISA bus, the analysis of events on ISA bus by logic analyser.
- The communication with an external adapter through PCI bus, the analysis of events on PCI bus by logic analyser.
- The analysis of IRQ service on PCI bus by logic analyser.
- The analysis of DMA cycles on PCI bus by logic analyser.
- The external adapter design with a Boot ROM and its installation into the system.
- The analysis of events on Centronics by logic analyser.
- Constructing BIOS and DOS routines for external adapters and peripheral devices control.
- External adapter design (theme No. 1) in design system environment.
- External adapter design (theme No. 1) in design system environment.
- External adapter design (theme No. 1) in design system environment.
- External adapter design (theme No. 2) in design system environment.
- External adapter design (theme No. 2) in design system environment.
- External adapter design (theme No. 2) in design system environment.
Progress assessment
Study evaluation is based on marks obtained for specified items. Minimimum number of marks to pass is 50.
Controlled instruction
Attending lab experiments, mid-term exam passing.
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