VTU Electronics and Communication Engineering (Semester 7)
Embedded System Design
December 2016
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Total time: --
INSTRUCTIONS
(1) Assume appropriate data and state your reasons
(2) Marks are given to the right of every question
(3) Draw neat diagrams wherever necessary


1(a) Explain a microprocessor based embedded system with diagram.
8 M
1(b) With necessary block diagram, explain the embedded system life cycle.
8 M
1(c) Explain the important steps in developing a embedded system.
4 M

2(a) Analyze how errors propogate under: i) Addition process ii) Multiplication process.
8 M
2(b) With the help of diagram, explain
i) Index mode data transfer operation.
ii) Program counter relative operation.
8 M
2(c) With timing diagram, explain i) Writing to a register ii) Reading from a register.
4 M

3(a) With diagram, explain direct mapping implementation and associative mapping cache implementation.
8 M
3(b) With diagram, explain the operation of DRAM. With timing diagram, explain read operation.
8 M
3(c) Explain the concept of dynamic memory allocation.
4 M

4(a) Deveop hardware and software specification for designing a counter and give data control flow diagram.
8 M
4(b) With diagram explain i) Water fall life cycle model ii) Spiral life cycle model.
8 M
4(c) Comapare functional model and architectural model.
4 M

5(a) Explain how memory is managed at.
i) System level ii) Process level.
8 M
5(b) Explain operating system architecture with diagram.
8 M
5(c) Explain multithreaded OS.
4 M

6(a) Organize general purpose register as, i) Four different contexts ii) Overlapping contexts.
8 M
6(b) Explain the structure of TCB with diagram.
8 M
6(c) With diagram, explain real time stack and application stack.
4 M

7(a) Analyze the basic flow of control construct in i) Constant time statement ii) Sequence of statement iii) For loops iv) While loops.
8 M
7(b) Explai the 3 methods used to compute time loading .
8 M
7(c) What is a co-routine? Explain.
4 M

8(a) Explain a typical memory map with diagram and explain the design of memory map with reference to memoryloading.
8 M
8(b) Explain caches and their performance.
8 M
8(c) Write explanatory note on hardware accelerators.
4 M



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