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Term End Examination - November 2012

Course : EEE540 - Embedded System Design

Slot: F1
Class NBR :

4116
Time : Three Hours

Max.Marks:100

Answer ALL the Questions

1. Name the classification of Embedded Systems. [2]
2. What are the constraints we will meet while designing an embedded system? [4]
3. Calculate the revenue loss percentage for the following






[4]
4. Assume three technologies are available for developing a product of 1000 units.
Calculate total cost and per product cost.
Tech NRE
Cost
Unit cost
A 2000 100
B 30,000 30
C 100000 2

[4]
5. Apart from speed, distance, master-slave, no. of wires, size of the data frame,
Error/collision detection, voltage scheme, what is the major disadvantage of CAN
protocol from other protocols [USB, I
2
C, RS232, SPI]
[2]
6. Design a 4K X 16 bit SRAM system using 2K X 8 bit SRAMs. [5]
8 months 16 months 2 months
Peak revenue = Rs. 100
Revenue = Rs. 60
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7. Draw the circuit for interfacing processor, memory and I/O devices through DMA. [4]
8. Name the different packets and transfers in USB 2.0. [3]
9. With neat diagram explain the STACK organisation of a processor for an embedded
system.
[4]
10. Select the features you need in a processor and Memorys type, size to develop a
a) Intelligent traffic light controller b) Text to Speech converter
[4]
11. Explain the following IO devices.
(i) Timers (ii) counters (iii) Watch dog timers
[3]
12. How RS485 has less electromagnetic interference/noise when compared to RS232? [3]
13. In CAN communication no clock data is communicated in the network [True or False] [2]
14. Consider a 4bit ADC with a reference voltage of 8V, what is the digital value after
conversion by ADC if the input voltage to ADC is 5 V?
[5]
15. Elaborate on each term in a CAN NODE. [6]
16. Below shown are the scrambled blocks of a CAN data Format. Arrange it in a correct
order for a Standard CAN data format.

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17. Assume the situation given in below and generate the sequence of action required if
microcontroller need to read from the sensor (assume the sensor data is 64h) and write
in display controller. Support your statements by drawing the data format.

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I2C BUS
Master
Micro
Controller
Sensor Display
Controller
Address-7ah
Address-88h
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18. With neat diagram explain the different task states for an RTOS. [6]
19. With necessary diagram explain the function call mechanism which makes use of stack
frames.
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20. Explain an embedded system application and model it using FSM. [3]
21. Differentiate General purpose and Real time operating system of an embedded system. [3]
22. Explain in detail the need of context switching. [4]
23. Define the States of a Task and explain when and between which states context
switching takes place.
[4]
24. Describe about priority inversion problem. How it can be avoided? [4]
25. Arrange the Data frames in the CAN bus in the sequential order based on the CAN
arbitration principles, justify it. The numbers in the diagram are the Value of the
Identifier field of a Data format.



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