Microcontrollers and Embedded System Design

UNIT –I
ARM Architecture: ARM Design Philosophy, Registers, Program Status Register, Instruction Pipeline, Interrupts and Vector Table, Architecture Revision, ARM Processor Families.

UNIT –II
ARM Programming Model – I: Instruction Set: Data Processing Instructions, Addressing Modes, Branch, Load, Store Instructions, PSR Instructions, Conditional Instructions.

UNIT –III
ARM Programming Model – II: Thumb Instruction Set: Register Usage, Other Branch Instructions, Data Processing Instructions, Single-Register and Multi Register Load-Store Instructions, Stack, Software Interrupt Instructions

UNIT –IV
ARM Programming: Simple C Programs using Function Calls, Pointers, Structures, Integer and Floating Point Arithmetic, Assembly Code using Instruction Scheduling, Register Allocation, Conditional Execution and Loops.

UNIT –V
Memory Management: Cache Architecture, Polices, Flushing and Caches, MMU, Page Tables, Translation, Access Permissions, Context Switch.

TEXT BOOKS:
1. ARM Systems Developer’s Guides- Designing & Optimizing System Software – Andrew N. Sloss, Dominic Symes, Chris Wright, 2008, Elsevier.

REFERENCE BOOKS:
2. Embedded Microcomputer Systems, Real Time Interfacing – Jonathan W. Valvano – Brookes/Cole, 1999, Thomas Learning.


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