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Embedded Systems Design

About the course
This course on Embedded systems will first the students to the fundamental requirements of embedded systems and the interaction between hardware and software in such systems. Next the course will discuss some basic steps of hardware design, introduce the students to ASIPs, ASICs and FPGAs. Next, the students will be exposed to the very important issue of designing for less power consumption and introduce them to the techniques that are adopted to this end. Since many of the embedded systems will have real time constraints, basic issues of real time operating systems will be discussed. This will be followed by formal specification models and languages, mapping the specification to hardware and software components along with decisions on design tradeoffs and hardware software partitioning. Next, synthesis if hardware and software along with a few of the optimization techniques will be presented. The course will end with a brief overview of design verification methods that are adopted for embedded system design. 

Pre-requisites

Computer Organization, Basic of Microprocessors

Industries that will recognize this course

Any industry working in the area of Embedded Systems

5881 students have enrolled already!!

Course instructor

Anupam Basu is Professor in the Dept. of Computer Science & Engineering, IIT Kharagpur, and has been an active researcher in the areas of Cognitive and Intelligent Systems, Embedded Systems and Language Processing, Presently he is acting as the Chairman and Head of the Center for Educational Technology, IIT Kharagpur. He has developed several embedded system based tools empowering the physically challenged and has led several national projects in the area.

 

He has taught at the University of California, Irvine at the Center for Embedded Systems. He is an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow and a Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering. The awards won by him include the State Award for the Best Contribution to the Cause of Empowerment of the Disabled (2014), Universal Design Award 2011, for contributions in design for the disabled, by National Council for Promotion of Employment of Disabled Persons, India, the National Award for the Best Technology Innovation for the Physically Disabled (2007) and the Da-Vinci Award 2004 from the Engineering Society of Detroit.

 

Course layout

Week 1: Introduction to Embedded System, ASICs and ASIPs

Week 2: Designing Single Purpose Processors and Optimization

Week 3: Introduction to FPGAs and Synthesis

Week 4: Verilog Hardware Description Language (Verilog HDL)

Week 5: Microcontrollers and Power Aware Embedded System Design

Week 6: Real Time Operating System

Week 7: Real Time Scheduling Algorithms

Week 8: Modelling and Specification

Week 9: Design Synthesis

Week 10: Digital Camera Design and Hardware Software Partitioning

Week 11: Design Optimization

Week 12: Simulation and Verification

 

Certification exam:

1. The exam is optional for a fee.

2. Date and Time of Exams: April 28 (Saturday) and April 29 (Sunday) : Morning session 9am to 12 noon; 

3. Exam for this course will be available in one session on both 28 and 29 April. 

4. Registration url: Announcements will be made when the registration form is open for registrations.

5. The online registration form has to be filled and the certification exam fee needs to be paid. More details will be made available when the exam registration form is published.

Certificates:

• Final score will be calculated as : 25% assignment score + 75% final exam score.

• 25% assignment score is calculated as 25% of average of 12 weeks course: Best 8 out of 12 assignments.

• E-Certificate will be given to those who register and write the exam and score greater than or equal to 40% final score. Certificate will have your name, photograph and the score in the final exam with the breakup. It will have the logos of NPTEL and IIT KHARAGPUR. It will be e-verifiable at nptel.ac.in/noc.