Course details

Design of External Adapters and Embedded Systems

NAV Acad. year 2006/2007 Summer semester 5 credits

Current academic year

The themes of lectures deal with problems that must be solved by a designer during the design of components of a peripheral device adapter and embedded system. 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). They will get acquainted with typical applications of embedded systems and principles of their design, the types of inputs/outputs. The attention will be paid also to the structure of operating systems for embedded systems. The laboratory tutorials will be directed towards the presentation of these principles on the design of external adapter components and embedded system in a design system environment.

Guarantor

Kotásek Zdeněk, doc. Ing., CSc.

Language of instruction

Czech

Completion

Examination

Time span

  • 26 hrs lectures
  • 16 hrs laboratories
  • 10 hrs projects

Department

Department of Computer Systems (UPSY)

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 systems 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-offs 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

The principles of digital systems and their components design.

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

  1. Typical applications of embedded systems, requirements and specifications.
  2. The core of embedded system - the processor, architecture of processors.
  3. Operating systems for embedded applications. Memory subsystem.
  4. Digital inputs and outputs. Analogue inputs and outputs.
  5. Human embedded system interface.
  6. Safety and fault-tolerant embedded systems. Advances architectures and parallelism in embedded systems.
  7. I/O bus systems, the principles used for their implementation, the communication.
  8. Principles of peripheral operation control. 
  9. I/O bus, the communication through I/O bus. 
  10. Principles of design and construction of memories on external adapters. 
  11. External adapter design based on micro-encoded control unit. External adapter design based on sequential control unit.
  12. External adapter synthesis in design system environment.
  13. The implementation of testability principles during the synthesis of embedded systems and external adapters.

Syllabus of laboratory exercises

  1. Digital inputs and outputs.
  2. Analogue inputs and outputs.
  3. Timers and counters.
  4. Keyboard and display control.
  5. The communication with an external adapter through system bus.
  6. The analysis of IRQ and DMA service on system bus.
  7. The analysis of events on Centronics by logic analyser.
  8. External adapter design 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 tutorials.

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