Course detail

Design of External Adapters and Embedded Systems

FIT-NAVAcad. year: 2013/2014

The themes of lectures deal with problems that must be solved by a designer during the design of components of a peripheral device adapter. Students will become acquainted with the principles of I/O bus system operation and the communication with adapters (communication with memory components, registers, interrupt request generation and its service, DMA request generation and its service). The principles of component design (synthesis) for peripheral operation control will be discussed. The laboratory tutorials will be directed towards the presentation of these principles on a computer structure and on the design of external adapter components and external adapter design in a design system environment.

Language of instruction

Czech

Number of ECTS credits

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Guarantor

doc. Ing. Richard Růžička, Ph.D., MBA

Department

Department of Computer Systems (UPSY)

Learning outcomes of the course unit

  • Students will become acquainted with the principles of digital systems design with complex sequential behavior reflecting the conditions in which the application will operate.
  • They will become acquainted with tools to support designer.
  • They will learn how an implementation will be subdivided between software and hardware components.
  • They will learn how to design controllers of external adapters of basic peripheral devices and independently operating computer systems operating in real environment and communicating with a user or systems on higher level.

  • Student learns to design a master's work solo and as a member of a team.
  • Student learns terminology in Czech and English language.

Prerequisites

  • Knowledge of programming in an assembly language and C language, basics of VHDL.
  • Knowledge of electronic circuit principles and computer architectures.

Co-requisites

Not applicable.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

The course uses teaching methods in form of Lecture - 2 teaching hours per week, Laboratory exercise - 2 teaching hours per week, Projects - 1 teaching hour per week.

Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes

Study evaluation is based on marks obtained for specified items. Minimimum number of marks to pass is 50.

Course curriculum

    Syllabus of lectures:
    1. Embedded system, design techniques, specification, embedded system requirements
    2. Selection of an appropriate platform, micro-controller. Pros and cons of using micro-controller in various situations.
    3. Hardware and software approach to embedded system functions.
    4. Digital inputs, binary information processing, digital outputs, two-state actuators control, extending digital inputs and outputs. Analog input and output, converters, comparators, control of analog actuators.
    5. Human interaction of embedded system, keyboard, status and general information visualization, LED displays, LCD character-based and graphics displays, screen. Communication inside embedded system with multiple processors, communication with external systems, serial synchronous and asynchronous, parallel, widespread protocols, networks.
    6. Typical software architecture of embedded system. Testing, debugging and diagnostics of embedded systems.
    7. System bus. Construction of system bus adapter, design of address decoder, realization of read and write transaction.
    8. Principles of peripheral operation controlling. Programmable peripheral operations, generation of interrupt, request for DMA and its realization.
    9. PCI and PCI-X bus architecture. Communication protocol, arbitration, interrupt handling and error recovery, Retry and Disconnect protocols.
    10. PCI-Express bus architecture. Device layers, configuration space, transaction routing.
    11. Operation system device driver architecture. Communication between user space and module, communication between module and adapter, models of blocking and non-blocking operations, DMA transfers.
    12. USB bus architecture. Transaction types, error detection and recovery, models of communication with system software.

    Syllabus of laboratory exercises:
    • A minimal embedded computer system with a MCU.
    • Expanding MCU outputs practically.
    • Communication between MCU and a peripheral or a sensor.
    • DC motor control.
    • Design of adapters: Construction of address decoder for PCI devices.
    • Design of adapters: Connection and test of embedded memory blocks.
    • Design of adapters: Module for communication via RS232 protocol.
    • Design of adapters: Data stream processing, construction of finite state machine.

    Syllabus - others, projects and individual work of students:
    • Basic design of a small embedded system or an external adapter architecture.

Work placements

Not applicable.

Aims

To develop knowledge gained in courses from the area of computer systems construction and demonstrate these principles in the field of external adapters design and embedded systems design. To utilize this knowledge in the design and implementation of complex digital systems with comprehensive sequential behavior. Students will be taught how to analyze the conditions in which the equipment under design will operate and on the basis of the analysis how to identify the trade-off between price, reliability and dynamic parameters. In laboratory tutorials students will study the structure and operation principles of external adapters and embedded systems components and their design in design system environment.

Specification of controlled education, way of implementation and compensation for absences

  • Lab experiments - 8 points.
  • Evaluated project with the defense - 17 points.
  • Written mid-term exam - 15 points.
  • Final written examination - 60 points.

Recommended optional programme components

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Basic literature

Miroslav Šnorek, Karel Richta: Připojování periferií k PC, Grada Publishing, 1996, ISBN 80-7169-146-1, 303 stran Tom Shanley, Don Anderson: PCI System Architecture, Addison Wesley, 1999, ISBN 0201309742, 833 stran Tom Shanley: PCI-X System Architecture, Addison Wesley, 2000, ISBN 0201726823, 688 stran Ravi Budruk, Don Anderson, Tom Shanley, PCI Express System Architecture, Addison Wesley, 2003, ISBN 0321156307, 1056 stran Don Anderson: Universal Serial Bus System Architecture, Addison Wesley, 2001, ISBN 0201309750, 544 stran Jonathan Corbet, Alessandro Rubini, Greg Kroah-Hartman: Linux Device Drivers, 3rd Edition, O'Reilly Media, 2005, ISBN-10: 0596005903, 640 stran Jonathan W. Valvano: Embedded Microcomputer Systems, Real Time Interfacing. Brooks/Cole, 2000, ISBN 0-534-36642-2. Ken Arnold: Embedded Controller Hardware Design. LLH Technology Publishing, 2001, ISBN 1-878707-52-3. Stuart R. Ball: Embedded Microprocessor Systems: Real World Design. Newnes, 2002, ISBN 0-7506-7534-9.

Recommended reading

Not applicable.

Classification of course in study plans

  • Programme IT-MSC-2 Master's

    branch MBS , 0 year of study, summer semester, compulsory-optional
    branch MIN , 0 year of study, summer semester, elective
    branch MIS , 0 year of study, summer semester, elective
    branch MMI , 0 year of study, summer semester, compulsory-optional
    branch MMM , 0 year of study, summer semester, elective
    branch MPV , 2 year of study, summer semester, compulsory
    branch MBI , 0 year of study, summer semester, compulsory-optional
    branch MGM , 0 year of study, summer semester, elective
    branch MSK , 2 year of study, summer semester, compulsory-optional

Type of course unit

 

Lecture

26 hod., optionally

Teacher / Lecturer

doc. Ing. Richard Růžička, Ph.D., MBA

Syllabus

 

Laboratory exercise

16 hod., compulsory

Teacher / Lecturer

doc. Ing. Richard Růžička, Ph.D., MBA

Syllabus

  • The communication with an external adapter through ISA bus, the analysis of events on ISA bus by logic analyser.
  • The communication with an external adapter through PCI bus, the analysis of events on PCI bus by logic analyser.
  • The analysis of IRQ service on PCI bus by logic analyser.
  • The analysis of DMA cycles on PCI bus by logic analyser.
  • The external adapter design with a Boot ROM and its installation into the system.
  • The analysis of events on Centronics by logic analyser.
  • Constructing BIOS and DOS routines for external adapters and peripheral devices control.
  • External adapter design (theme No. 1) in design system environment.
  • External adapter design (theme No. 1) in design system environment.
  • External adapter design (theme No. 1) in design system environment.
  • External adapter design (theme No. 2) in design system environment.
  • External adapter design (theme No. 2) in design system environment.
  • External adapter design (theme No. 2) in design system environment.

Project

10 hod., optionally

Teacher / Lecturer

doc. Ing. Richard Růžička, Ph.D., MBA