ELE 529E - Embedded Systems

Course Objectives

1. 2. 3. 4. 5. has an insight into the theoretical and practical aspects of embedded systems, both in terms of
hardware, software and system description models
understands the different architectural and technological design options for embedded systems
has an insight into aspects of System-on-Chip (SoC)
arrive at design of an embedded system using custom and general-purpose processor
understands how to enable communication between software and custom hardware

Course Description

RTL Design, Optimization and Tradeoff, Combinational Logic Optimizations and Tradeoffs,
Sequential Logic Optimizations and Tradeoffs, RTL Design Optimizations and Tradeoffs,
Hardware Description Languages, Data Flow Modeling and Implementation, Analysis of Control
Flow and Data Flow, Finite State Machine with Datapath, Microprogrammed Architectures,
General-Purpose Embedded Cores, System On Chip, On-Chip Busses, Hardware/Software
Interfaces, Coprocessor Control Shell Design, CORDIC Coprocessor