Embedded System

Necessity is the mother of invention and embedded systems are inventions that were fuelled by the idea of making pre-programs to perform a dedicated function, as part of large systems.

Embedded systems are involved in almost every face of modern life. All modern luxury equipments like Digital Cameras, Mobile Phones, GPS Devices, Cars, Bikes, Televisions, DVD Players, Video Games, Pagers, PDAs, Answering Machines, Microwave Ovens, Network Routers, Fax Machines, Music Synthesizers, Planes, Spacecraft, and Boats are some of the examples of Embedded Systems.

Latest model cars may contain as many as 300 embedded microprocessors, controlling tasks such as antilock braking, climate control, engine control, audio system control, airbag deployment etc.

Even PCs, which are designed around powerful CPUs such as the Intel Pentium 4, contain embedded systems. Floppy and hard disk drives, CD-RW and DVD-ROM drives, and external peripherals such as printers, scanners, and other SCSI, USB, or IEEE 1394 devices all contain embedded processors.

In a particular year, microprocessor manufacturers sold on the order of 100 million processors to use it in computer CPUs. In comparison, during the same time frame, microprocessor manufacturers sold more than 3 billion embedded processors, primarily consisting of 32-bit, 16- bit, 8-bit, and 4-bit devices.

Objectives:

• Now the skills and full-fledged knowledge in embedded systems are highly sought in the recruitment perspective and will continue to grow in the years to come.
• Embedded systems are normally built around Microcontrollers, Digital Signal processors(DSPs), and FPGAs or SOCs.To meet the demand for highly trained and component professionals in this field, we equip our students with technologies like 8051(ATMEL), PIC(Microchip), ARM(TI), At mega(ATMEL), MSP(TI)to make them proficient in embedded system design.
• On completion of this course,the students shall be :-
• Exposure with different families and architectures of Embedded system tools such as Microcontrollers, DSPs etc.
• Expertise is required to design any embedded system (H/W or both ) based on any of the above devices.