UNIT 1:
Embedded computing: Characteristicsof embedded computing applications, challenges in embedded computing system design, design hardware and software components.Hardware fundamentals: Microprocessor, Buses, DMA, UART Programmable Array Logic Application specific IC, Watch dog timers, memory caches and instruction pipelines, interrupt basics, interrupt latency.

UNIT 2:
Embedded system development tools: Host and target machines, linkers and locators, JTAG port, monitor, buildprocess in an embedded system.Hardware debugging aids like in build circuit emulators and logic analyzers.

UNIT 3:
Software architecture for implementing various tasks: round robin with / without interrupts, function queue scheduling architecture, real time operating system

UNIT 4:
Rate monotonic and EDF scheduling, priority inversion, Shared data problems and intertask communication techniques : semaphores, message queue, buffers, mailboxes, reentrancy issue, timer functions, interrupts and I/O. Evaluating Operating System Performance, Power optimization strategies for professes, ACPI.

UNIT 5:
Network embedded system, distributed embedded architecture, hardware and software architecture, 12 C bus, CAN bus, Myrinet, networked based design: Communication analysis performance analysis, hardware platform design, allocation and scheduling, internet embedded system.