8.
Embedded
System Reliability and Fault
Tolerance
7. Hardware Software Co-synthesis and System
Partitioning
6. Real-time Scheduling
and Priority Inversion
5. Real-time Operating
Systems: VxWorks and RTX
4. Embedded CPUs: ARM Processor Cores
3a. SystemC
Implementation of JPEG Compression
3. SystemC and Hardware
Software Co-design
2.
Hardware Software Co-design
1. Introduction to Embedded
Computer Systems
EE8205 Course Management Fall
2025
and lecture notes will be updated in Aug. 2025
ARM Cortex-M3, Keil ARM Board and RTX Real-time
Operating System related documents posted at Papers/Data Sheets
ARM Instruction Set - Quick
Reference Card is posted.
ARM Cortex M3 Board MCB1700 User Guide
URL
Labs and
Project Details
There are labs and main project in the course. In the
Labs, students learn about the ARM Cortex M3 processor
and RTX embedded operating system.
Tutorial and Labs (20% [+5%
Bonus Marks] of the Course Marks)
1. uVision
for ARM Cortex M3 processors - Installation and
Tutorial Lab (4% marks)
2. Introduction
to ARM Cortex M3 Features (8% marks)
3. Scheduling
Real-time Applications by using uVision and RTX (8%
marks)
Some
of the required files to complete the
above Labs are available at D2L
SystemC
Installation for
Windows
Some
of the
required files
for SystemC
installation
for Windows
are available
at D2L
Submit all Lab
reports through D2L. All submission
material/file should be in pdf format.
- Tutorial Lab - uVision for ARM Cortex M3/M4
CPUs. Just submit one page report
along with modified code and some screen shots to
confirm that you have attempted the Tutorial Lab.
- Lab2 - Introduction to Cortex M3 Features. Just
submit 2-3 page report along with your code and
relevant screen shots to demo your
work.
- Lab3 - Scheduling Real-time Applications
using RTX. Just submit 2-3
page report along with your
code and relevant
screen shots to demo your work.
Main Project (40% of
the Course Marks)
Details and Selection
The main Project is to be envisaged and completed by
the students. Details of some of the projects are
provided here. Students are encouraged to
propose project topics in the embedded systems
area and get them approved from the instructor.
You may choose a project topic from any one of the
following areas. The project topics listed below are
not limited to the following areas.
1. Case study and review of an
interesting embedded system.
2. Case study of Real-time
Scheduling Techniques for a typical Real-time
Application.
3. Development of an Embedded
Application of your choice by employing an SoPC (such
as an FPGA having a soft or hard processor).
4. Developing a Real-time/Embedded
Multitasking Embedded Application of your choice using
an ARM Cortex Processor.
5. Embedded System design for one of
the following applications:
• Smart Home, Home or Work Reminder
Systems, etc.
•
Multimedia Applications including
MP3, MPEG and JPEG 2000.
•
RFID based Embedded Systems.
6.
Hardware-Software Codesign of a specific embedded
system for a particular application including signal
and image processing, image compression, multimedia,
or any other interesting application such as
crypto-currency mining.
7. A multitasking embedded
application of your choice using RTX.
8. Case study of a Fault-tolerant
Embedded System of your choice. (such as involving
aerospace, biomedical, critical-control
applications).
9. Modeling Embedded System of your
choice or one of the following using SystemC:
• JPEG 2000, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MP3
encoder or decoder
•
RFID based embedded systems
10. Any other
approved project on Hardware-software Codesign, and
System on Chip (SoC) areas involving:
• Embedded System Co-Specification and
Using SystemC for Embedded System Modeling.
•
Embedded System Partitioning into
Hardware and Software Blocks.
•
Embedded System Co-synthesis.
11. Designing multitasking
and/or real-time scheduling techniques using ARM Cortex
CPU and RTX.
Final exam will
be scheduled in December 2025
and it will be 120
Minutes duration.
Final exam will cover all the
Lectures, Labs and Project related
Material.
ARM
Inst. Set - Reference Card is allowed in the
Final exam. Bring your own hard copy in theexam. Students are
also allowed to bring one (Letter size single or
double side) sheet of self prepared notes in the
exam.
ARM Inst. Set -
Reference Card and SystemC Quick Reference
are useful for the
exams.
