Learn About Embedded System

Basics of program writing and coding practices; overview of C programming language; introduction to GNU Toolchain and GNU Make utility; Linux environment and vi editor; tokens of C — keywords, data-types, variables, constants, operators, identifiers, storage class specifiers; control flow statements; arrays and multidimensional arrays; data input and output; strings; loops; functions and recursion; pointers — introduction, pointer arithmetic, pointers and arrays, pointers and functions, pointers and strings; structures, unions, enum, typedef; bit field operators and pointers with structures; preprocessors; C and Assembly; files and I/O; variable number of arguments; command line arguments; error handling; debugging and optimization of C programs; bit operations; handling portability issues in C; hardware; time, space and power aware programming.

Introduction to data structures; algorithms and abstract data types; complexity of algorithms; linked lists; stacks; queues; searching and sorting algorithms; hashing; trees.

Overview of microcontrollers, microprocessors and SoC; RISC vs CISC; Harvard vs Princeton architectures; overview of computer architecture; embedded memories; timers/counters; UART, SPI, PWM, WDT; input capture and output compare modes; I2C, CAN, LED, switches, ADC, DAC, LCD, RTC; bus standards (USB, PCI); programming in Assembly and Embedded C. ARM: overview of ARM architecture and organization; introduction to Cortex-M architecture; programming model and instruction set architecture; alignment and endianness; register access, state, privilege, stack; System Control Block; power modes; memory model; NVIC; exception handling; bit-banding; peripheral programming; SVCall, SysTick, PendSv; MPU; DMA; mixing Assembly and C programs; introduction to CMSIS and CMSIS components; overview of Cortex-A and Cortex-R architectures.

Introduction to embedded operating systems; anatomy of an Embedded Linux system — bootloader, kernel, root file system; application process management; interprocess communication and synchronisation; memory management; I/O subsystem and embedded file systems; POSIX thread programming; POSIX semaphores, mutexes, conditional variables, barriers; message queues; shared memory; debugging and testing of multithreaded applications; socket programming; customising Embedded Linux based on Yocto; virtualisation — Dockers and Containers.

The Embedded Linux software eco-system; Linux kernel modules and module programming; char device drivers; kernel internals — dynamic memory allocations; handling delays; timers; synchronization; locking; I/O memory and ports; interrupts; deferred executions; driver debugging techniques; drivers for GPIO, I2C and SPI; pseudo filesystems (procfs, sysfs).

Introduction to real-time concepts; RTOS internals and real-time scheduling; performance metrics of RTOS; task specifications; schedulability analysis; application programming on RTOS; porting of RTOS; configuring RTOS; building RTOS image for target platforms.

IoT trends, architecture, and applications; IoT standards and protocols; Wireless LAN (IEEE 802.11); Wireless PAN (IEEE 802.15.1 and 802.15.4); Zigbee; Bluetooth; BTLE; LPWAN (LoRa, NB-IoT); 6LowPAN; REST; CoAP; MQTT; basics of cryptography; overview of IoT and embedded security; overview of 5G technologies.

AI fundamentals; supervised learning; unsupervised learning; ensemble techniques; time series forecasting; neural networks and deep learning; Embedded AI applications; Embedded AI frameworks (CMSIS-NN, AIfES, TensorFlow Lite, TensorFlow Lite Micro); feature engineering; model selection and tuning; development and deployment of embedded ML models; case study on Embedded AI.

Learn with projects: BMS; Display Interfacing (TFT); Motor Controller; CAN Communications.