National Institute of Electronics and

Information Technology, Calicut

CDS/CA/7.5.1/F 40/R10

COURSE PROSPECTUS

Name of the Group: Embedded System Group

Name of the Course: PG Diploma in Embedded System Design

Course Code: ED 500

Starting Date: 16 August 2017

Duration: 24 Weeks (840 Hours)

Preamble: To better compete in the global market, successful companies are finding
that investments in hardware and software are no longer enough. Human elements
with specialized engineering and design skills have become the essential part of the
equation.

Embedded systems are ubiquitous. We find them everywhere- at our homes, offices, in
shopping malls, in hospitals, in cars, in air craft and so on. They monitor and control
everything from spacecraft to robots, microwave ovens, automobiles, consumer
electronics and much more. They control virtually everything that is electronic in our
lives.

Embedded systems are normally built around Microcontrollers, FPGAs and SOCs.
This Embedded System Design course focuses on the architecture and programming
of embedded devices such as Microcontrollers and FPGAs and also on embedded and
Real-Time Operating Systems.

Objective of the Course:

The objective of the course is to provide understanding of the techniques essential to

the design and implementation of embedded systems using appropriate hardware and
software tools. This course offers a range of topics of immediate relevance to industry
and makes the participants exactly suitable for Embedded Industry.

Outcome of the Course: On completion of the Course, the Participants shall get

Exposure with different families and architectures of Embedded System tools such
as Microcontroller, ARM, FPGAs etc.
Expertise required to design any embedded system (H/w or S/w or both) based on
any of the above devices.
Expertise in Embedded Software particularly in real-time programming with
industry standard RTOS.

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Course Structure: This course contains total eight modules. After completing the
first seven modules, the students have to do a six weeks project using any of the topics
studied to earn the PG Diploma.

ED500 Module Name Weeks

ED501 Embedded C and ARM Cortex Microcontrollers 4
ED502 Embedded Linux 2
ED503 Embedded RTOS 4
ED504 Porting on ARM Cortex Microcontrollers 2
ED505 IoT (Internet of Things) 2
ED506 System Design using FPGAs 2
ED507 Embedded Product Design 2
ED508 Project Work 6
Total 24

Other Contents:

a. Course Fees:

General Candidates: Course fee is Rs 70,000 + Service Tax at actual

SC/ST Candidates: Tuition Fees/Examination fees are waived for SC/ST

students admitted under SCSP/TSP. However they are required to remit an
amount of Rs. 8,050/- as Advance caution/security deposit. This amount will be
considered as caution/security deposit and will be refunded after successful
completion of the course. If the student fails to complete the course successfully
this amount along with any other caution/security deposits by the student will be
forfeited.

Modular wise Course Fee: Not Applicable for this course

b. Registration Fee: An amount of Rs 1000/- should be paid at the time of

registering for the course. The same will be considered as caution deposit on
student joining the course. This advance deposit will not be refunded for a
selected candidate who does not join the course.

c. Course Fee Installment Structure:

Students can pay the full fees of Rs 80,500/- (Rs 70,000/- + Service Tax) in advance
or as installments as given below

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Fees *Amount for General Amount for SC/ST Due Date (on or
Candidates Candidates before)
**Advance Rs.10,000 /- Rs 8050/- 10/08/2017
Fee (refundable after
successful completion
of course)
1st Rs 30250/- (if advance Nil 16/08/2017
Installment deposit paid)
else Rs 40250/-
2nd Rs 40250/- Nil 09/11/2017
Installment

* Above fees is inclusive Service Tax @actual (15%) and revision if any will be
applicable at the time of payment.

** Advance fee - After publication of first selection list, the students in the first
selection list have to pay the Advance Deposit within one week to
take the provisional admission. Students in the additional selection
should pay both Advance and First installment fee together on or
before counseling day

Fine will be applicable to late fee payment as given below

Sl. No. Description Fine

1. Late fee payment within two weeks after 18% (annually) of the
due date outstanding dues
2. After second week of due date the Readmission fee Rs250/- plus
candidate has to pay readmission fees fine of 18% (annually) of the
along with the fine outstanding dues
3. The candidate has to discontinue the course after third week from the due
date

d. Eligibility:
i. M.E./M.Tech or B.E./B.Tech in Electronics/ Electronics & Communication/
Electrical/ Electrical and Electronics/Instrumentation/ Biomedical /Computer
Science/Information Technology or MSc in Electronics/ Instrumentation/
Computer Science/Information Technology.
ii. Candidates who have appeared in the qualifying examination and awaiting
results may also apply.
iii. On the date of counseling/admission, the candidate must produce the original
mark lists up to the last semester/year of examination.

e. Number of Seats : 40

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f. How to Apply :
Students are advised to apply online @http://nielit.gov.in/content/online-
registration. Payment towards advance fee of Rs.1,000/- may be paid the SBI
Collect Payment Gateway @http://nielit.gov.in/calicut/content/mode-
payments-0

Rs.1000/- will be considered as refundable caution deposit on student joining the

course, which will be refunded on successful completion of course. This advance
deposit will not be refunded for a selected candidate who does not join the course.

SBI Collect Payment Gateway:

1. Please click the SBI Collect hyper link to enter the payment gateway.
2. Select Payment Category as Course Fee
3. Enter all the fields including amount payable and follow the instructions

The following details should reach here before the due dates.
1. Name of the Depositor
2. Name of the Student
3. Date of Payment
4. Amount Deposited
5. Purpose Course Name:
6. UTR Number

The Institute will not be responsible for any mistakes done by either the bank
concerned or by the depositor while remitting the amount into our account.

g. Selection of candidates :

The selection to the course shall be based on the following criteria:

i. Selection of candidates will be based on their marks in the qualifying examination
and the on-line admission test conducted by NIELIT subject to eligibility and
availability of seats. Knowledge in C Programming and Basic Electronics is a
pre-requisite of this course.
ii. The First list of Provisionally Selected Students will be published in our website
http://nielit.gov.in/calicut/on 3rd August 2017.
iii. All candidates who ho appear in the first selection list may pay Rs.10,000/- on or
before 10th August 2017 by DD (Drawn in favor of Director, NIELIT, Calicut,
Payable at State Bank of India, NITC Branch, Chathamangalam.) or by direct
payment into our account from any bank where core banking facility is available.
Selected candidates are requested to send the proof of remittance of fee, so as to
reach the center by 11th August 2017.

h. Test/Interview:

1. Online Admission Test : 1 Hour

Duration

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2. Online Admission Test : 1st, 2nd, 4th, 7th,, 10th & 15th August 2017. (Can
Dates take test on any one of the dates, however
recommended to take on the earliest dates)
3. Number of Questions : 50
4. Syllabus : The pattern of the test shall be as follows
Aptitude (20%), Logical reasoning (20%)
C Programming (10%) and Basic Electronics
(50%).
Basic Electronics includes topics of Digital,
Analog, Microprocessor, Computer Organization,
Signals and Systems.
5. Where to take test : Candidates can take the online test at home or any
place where there is uninterrupted internet facility.

6. How to take test : All candidates who have registered and paid the
advance deposit shall be provided with user name
and password by e-mail at least two days before
the Admission Test. Those students who have not
got the user name and password at least two days
before the examination may contact the course
coordinator immediately. In case of any network
failure during test, the same may be intimated to us
immediately.

7. Mock Test : Mock Test shall be available from 1st July 2017.
Duration of the Mock test will be 10 minutes.
Those desiring to take the Mock test can log in to
http://nielit.gov.in/calicut/

i. Counseling/Admission :
All candidates provisionally selected and paid the fees (full or first installment)
will have to be present personally for counseling and admission on 16th August
2017 with all the necessary documents (originals and attested copies). Working
days are from Monday to Friday. Admission timings are from 9.30 am to 4.00 pm.
Those who dont bring the necessary documents (originals and attested copies) by
16th August 2017 are not eligible for admission and counseling.

j. Spot Admission: If spot admission is open, spot admission will close within 15
days of Counseling/Admission of a particular course. On spot admission students
should provide an undertaking saying that he/she is fully aware that he/she missed
so much days of class and will not ask for extra classes or further extension of
course.

k. Admission Procedure :
Students who have been selected for test/interview/counseling/admission are
required to report to the Institute on the prescribed day by 9:30Hrs. along with the
following

1. Original and attested Copies of Proof of Age, Qualifications, etc.

2. One passport size photograph and one stamp size photograph for identity card.

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3. SC/ST Certificate (Original and attested copies, if applicable)
4. Income Certificate (Original and attested copy, if applicable)

The students on reaching the Institute are required to meet the Front Office Councilor
(FOC). The FOC then directs the student to the Course Coordinator. The student gets
the certificates and enrollment form verified by the Course Coordinator and then
meets the FOC who shall direct the student to the Accounts for payment of fees. A
student is thus admitted, attested copies of all documents shall be handed over to the
Course Coordinator.

l. Discontinuing the course: No fees (including the caution deposit) under any
circumstances, shall be refunded in the event of a student discontinuing the
course. No certificate shall be issued for the classes attended.
A student can however, be eligible for module certificates (applicable only for
courses which provide for modular admission) which he has successfully
completed provided, he/she has paid the entire course fees. This is not applicable
to SC/ST candidates availing fee concession. SC/ST candidates availing fee
concession are eligible for module certificates only after completing the full
course with required attendance

m. Course Timings :
This program is a practical oriented one and hence there shall be more lab than
theory classes. The classes and labs are from 9.30 am to 12.45 pm and 1.30 pm to
5.15 pm Monday to Friday. During project work, the timings are from 9.15 am to
5.15 pm. The theory to lab proportion is 30:70.

n. Location and how to reach :

NIELIT Calicut is located very close to NIT campus and is about 22Kms from the
Calicut (Kozhikode) city. A number of buses (Buses to NIT viaKunnamangalam)
are available from "Palayam Bus Stand and KSRTC Bus Stand". The bus stop at
our Institute is called "Panthrand" and is one stop before NIT. The bus fare is
around Rs 17/-from Calicut City to NIELIT.

Calicut (Kozhikode) is well connected by Rail, Road and Air form different parts
of the country. The maximum and minimum temperatures range between 350C
and 20oC.

o. Course enquiries :
Students can enquire about the various courses either on telephone or by personal
contact between 9.15 A.M. to 5.15 P.M. (Lunch time 1.00 pm to 1.30 pm)
Monday to Friday.

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p. Important Dates (if applicable) :

August 2017
SUN MON TUE WED THU FRI SAT
1 2 3 4 5

Online Online First Online

Admission Admission Test Selection Admission
Test list in Test
website
6 7 8 9 10 11 12

Online Second Online Third

Admission Selection Admission Selection
Test list in Test/Last list in
website date of website
first
installment
payment
13 14 15 16 17 18 19

Last date of Online Counseling/

receiving Admission Admission &
completed Test Commencement
applications of classes
20 21 22 23 24 25 26

27 28 29 30 31

Note: Second installment of fee payment on/before 9th November 2017.

q. Placement :
We have a placement cell, which provides placement assistance to students who
qualify our courses. The course improves the knowledge and skill of the students
as it deals with the latest technologies and tools used in industries. This helps the
student in getting a placement by
a. Campus placement
b. Placement by companies for whom we send the students bio data and they
conduct interviews at their site.
c. Students themselves attend interview at different companies and the course
helps in the interview.

r. Hostel facilities :
Hostel accommodation is available for boys and girls on monthly or daily
chargeable basis. The hostel fee varies from Rs.1,400 /- to Rs.1,500/-- per month
depending on the type of accommodation. However, students are required to pay
the hostel fees for the duration of the course for which they are seeking admission
at the time of joining the course.

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s. Canteen facilities :
Canteen & Mess facility is available for both boys & girls, students, those who
avail mess facility should pay monthly mess fee @Rs.130/- per day. An amount
of Rs.1,000/- should be paid as mess advance to the Canteen Contractor at the
time of joining the mess which will be adjusted in the last month mess fee.

An amount of Rs.3,000/- should be paid as caution deposit (hostel & mess) at the
time of joining the hostel which will be refunded/adjusted at the end of the course.

t. Lab Facilities

We have state-of-the-art lab facility in embedded systems which include,

32-bit ARM Microcontroller Development Systems ARM Cortex-M3/M4
STM32, ATMEL ARM9 EK & CIRRUS LOGIC EDB9315
Friendly ARM, Rasberry PI , Intel Galileo andArduino Boards
8-bit &16-bit Microcontroller Dev. Systems - Intel 8051, 80C196, MPLAB for
PIC 16& 18 series, Cygnaletc
VxWorks, RTLinux&ChibiOS/RT RTOS
Xilinx ISE FPGA Design Tools, Model Sim Simulator
C compiler for 8051 (KEIL C Development IDE), PIC (CCS), 80C196
(Tasking), ARM Developer Suite (ADS v1.)
MATLAB, Simulink, TI C6000 target for MATLAB, LabView, Wireless LAN
GSM/GPRS/GPS/Zigbee/Bluetooth/WiFi Modems.
Wireless Simulators expertise in Glomosim, NS2, NS3, etc.
Universal DATA I/O programmer, PC Based EDA tools (ORCAD)
Digital Storage & Mixed Signal Oscilloscopes (500, 350, 300, 100 MHz )
EMI Test Setup, Logic Analyzer, SMD Rework station

u. Course Contents :

ED 501: Embedded C and ARM Cortex Microcontrollers

Module Duration: 140 Hours
Embedded Concepts, C and Embedded C, Introduction to ARM Cortex
Architecture, Cortex M3 Microcontrollers & Peripherals

ED 502: Embedded Linux

Module Duration: 70 Hours
Basic Operating System Concepts, Linux as Embedded Operating System,
Comparison of Embedded OS, Internals of Linux OS, System Calls, Multithreading
and Synchronization, Serial port and Network programming, Kernel module
programming and Device drivers, Pipe and FIFOs, Shared memory, Sockets,
Embedded Linux Applications

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ED503: Embedded RTOS
Module Duration: 140 Hours
Embedded Software Real-time Vs Non Real-time, Introduction to Real-time
systems and Embedded Real-time Systems, Comparison of Embedded RTOSs,
Design Goals for Real-time software, Introduction RTLinux, Thread Creation and
Management, Thread Synchronization Mechanisms, IPC RTFIFO, Shared Memory,
Interrupt Handling, Introduction to VxWorks, Task Creation and management, Inter
Task Communication Mechanisms Semaphores, Message Queues, Pipes, Interrupts,
Tornado tools, Application Development under RTLinux and VxWorks

ED504: Porting on ARM Cortex Microcontrollers

Module Duration: 70 Hours
Building root file system, Kernel Compilation for ARM, Porting of OS to ARM.
Overview of open source RTOS (Chibi-OS / FreeRTOS / MicroC-OS etc.), Porting
open source - Embedded OS (Linux) & other RTOS (Chibi-OS / FreeRTOS /
MicroC-OS etc.) on ARM Cortex Microcontrollers. RTOS based applications
development on Cortex Microcontrollers.

ED505: Internet of Things (IoT)

Module Duration: 70 Hours
Introduction to IoT, WoT and M2M, Basics of Internet & Review of Internet
protocols, Data logging /IoT Layering concepts , Wireless PAN (Bluetooth &Zigbee),
GSM, Wifi, Introduction to Wireless Sensor Networks , Routing Protocols in WSN,
Database Management

ED 506: System Design Using FPGAs

Module Duration: 70 Hours
Review of Basic Electronics (Digital Electronics + Communication), Introduction to
VHDL, VHDL Concepts, Types & Operators, Sequential & Concurrent Statements,
VHDL Simulation, XILINX FPGA Architecture, Synthesis & Implementation on
FPGAs, Mini Project using FPGAs

ED 507: Embedded Product Design

Module Duration: 70 Hours
Product Development Process, Programming Aids, Embedded Protocols and
Interfacing, Microcontroller Based Design

ED 508: Project Work

Module Duration: 210 Hours
The students can select hardware, software or system level projects. The project can be
implemented using Microcontroller or FPGA or RTOS tools which students have studied
and used during the course. A total product or project can be selected.

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