SUDHARSAN ENGINEERING COLLEGE

Sathiyamangalam—622 501, Pudukkottai (Dt.)

Department Of Electronics and Communication Engineering

Unit-I

Revision Test –I

Date :- 18-09-2010

PART-A 4*2=8

1. What are the various classifications of embedded systems?

The various classifications of embedded systems are
 Small Scale Embedded System
 Medium Scale Embedded System
 Sophisticated Embedded System
2. What does the execution unit of a processor in a embedded system do?
It has circuits that implement the instructions pertaining to data transfer operations and
data conversion from one form to another. It includes the Arithmetic and Logical Unit
(ALU) and the circuits that execute the program control tasks are halt, interrupt or jump.
3. When is Application Specific System processors (ASSPs) used in an embedded
system?
An ASSP is used as an additional processing unit for running the application specific task
in place of processing using embedded software.
Eg: - Serial To Ethernet Converter (IIM 7100) – It does real time data processing by a
hardware protocol stack.
4. Define device driver.
A device driver is software for controlling, receiving and sending a byte or a stream of
bytes from or to a device. For physical devices, a driver uses the hardware status flags and
control register bits are in set and reset states.
PART-B 6*2=12

5. List the hardware units that must be present in the embedded systems.
 Power source and Power Dissipation and Consumption Management
 Clock Oscillator Circuit and Clocking Unit
 Real Time Clock and Timer for various timing and counting needs of the system
 Reset circuit, Power-up reset and Watchdog Timer reset
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Sathiyamangalam—622 501, Pudukkottai (Dt.)

Department Of Electronics and Communication Engineering

 Memories
 I/O Ports, Buses, Interfaces
 DAC(Using Pulse Width Modulation) and ADC
 LCD and LED Displays
 Keypad and Keyboard
 Pulse Dialer , Modem and Transceiver
 GPIB(General Purpose Interface Bus) IEEE 488 Link

Power Source, Consumption and Dissipation:-

It has a power supply of thy own and its operation can be any one of the following ranges:
5.0V ±0.25V, 3.3V±0.3V

Some of the systems don’t have a power source of thy own such systems require external
power supply or powered by the use of charge pump.

E.g. Network Interface Card

Memories:-

 Internal RAM microcontroller

 RAM at System On Chip
 Internal Cache at microprocessor
 External RAM
 Flash/EEPROM
 ROM/PROM
 Memory address at the system port

6. Explain the software tools in designing of an embedded system. (8)

Software Tools are
 Editor For writing Codes

 Interpreter  Line By Line translation to machine code

 Compiler  Creates a file called object file by the sets of code

 Assembler  Translating Assembly Mnemonics into binary code

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Department Of Electronics and Communication Engineering

 Cross Assembler  Converting object code or executable code for a rocessor
to other code for another processor

 Simulator  simulate all function of an embedded circuits

 Source – Code

 RTOS (Real Time Operating System)

 Engineering Software – enabling and disabling the C++ features

 Stethoscope  dynamically tracking the change in any program ariable

 Trace Scope  Help in tracing the change in the module