Embedded Systems Training

Participants would be able to design, describe, validate and optimise embedded electronic systems in different industrial application areas.  Capability to solve theoretical and practical problems with particular emphasis on electronic circuits, control programs and the software-hardware interface.

Course Outline:

• Course Outline for Embedded Systems
• C Language: 4 Days
• Why C in Embedded
• ANSI Standard
• Fundamentals of C
• Datatypes and Constants
• Simple & Formatted 
• Memory Usage
• Operators & Expressions
• Flow Control
• Loops
• Functions
• Role of Functions
• Pass by value  reference
• Returning values from Functions
• Recursive Functions
• Call Back Functions
• Implications on Stack
• Library Vs User defined function
• Passing variable number of arguments Arrays
• Defining, initializing and using arrays
• Multi Dimensional 
• Arrays
• Arrays of Characters and Strings
• Arrays and Pointers
• Passing arrays to functions
• String handling with and without library functions 
• Storage Classes
• Scope and Life
• Automatic, Static, External, Register
• Structures & Unions
• What structures are for
• Declaration, initialization
• Accessing like objects
• Nested Structures
• Array of Structures
• Passing structures through functions
• Allocation of memory and holes
• Structure Comparison
• Structure bit operation
• Typedef for portability
• Unions
• Overlapping members 
• Enumerated data types
• Enum, Indexing, enum Vs #define 
• C++ Language: 5 Days
• Requirements for C++ in an Embedded System
• Embedded system characteristics 
• Language choice 
• Memory mapped peripherals 
• Volatile variables 
• Compilation 
• System boot-up 
• Best Practices
• Summary of C
• A refresher on basic C syntax 
• Functions 
• Control flow 
• Fundamental types 
• Literals 
• Derived types 
• Operators 
• Standard libraries
• From C to C++ and C++11
• The features added to C by C++ and the ANSI C-1999 standard 
• inline 
• const 
• Enhanced enumerations 
• constant expressions 
• auto 
• Overview of I/O streams 
• Function prototypes
• Pass-by-reference 
• Default arguments 
• Function and operator overloading 
• String class
• Linkage and Storage
• Learn some tricky features often overlooked in C, but necessary for C++ 
• Scope 
• Linkage 
• Linking C and C++ 
• Namespaces
• Static, automatic and dynamic storage 
• new and delete
• Placement new 
• Arrays and Pointers 
• Vectors