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Muffakham Jah College of Engineering and Technology

Information Technology Department

Embedded system Question Bank

Unit-I

Short answers

Characteristics of embedded systems

Challenges in embedded system design

Types of embedded system

Structure of PSW

PC and DPTR

List various SFRs

What is an interrupt and types of interrupts

Long answers

Embedded system design process

Microprocessor vs microcontroller

Block diagram of 8051

Pin description of 8051

Port 0,1,2,3 working with diagrams

RAM and Rom interfacing

TCON & TMOD structures (Timer SFRs)

Timer Modes of operation

SCON and PCON SFRs (serial communication SRFs)

Serial data transmission modes

IE, IP SFRs (Interrupt SRFs)

UNIT-II
Short answers

Push and pop operations

Data exchange operations

External memory operations

Rotate and swap operations

Decimal arithmetic

Arithmetic flags

7segment structure

Serial data network configurations

MOVX and MOVC instructions

Long answers

Various Addressing modes with example instructions

Byte level and bit level operations

Jump and call program range

Conditional and unconditional jumps with example instructions

Sequence of events when an interrupt occurs

Sequence of events when a call is made to a subroutine

Interfacing of LCD, Keyboard

Multiple interrupts

I2C and Bus interfaces

UNIT-III

Short answers

What is a transducer? Give example

Smart sensor and its properties

Primary sensor and its characteristics

Define automation in sensors


Various home appliance sensors

Long answers

Compensation and commonly encountered defects

Excitation and amplification

Standards for Smart Sensor Interface

Temperature and oxygen sensors

Proximity sensors

Sensors for environmental monitoring

UNIT-IV

Short answers

Hard and soft real time systems

Requirements of RTOS

Difference between GPOS and RTOS

Task and task state diagram

Contents of TCB

Re-entrant function

Different ways to protect shared data

Long answers

What is shared data problem. How it can be solved using semaphores

Priority inversion and its solution

Interrupt routines in RTOS

Message queues and mailbox

Best principles in design of an RTOS

Hard real time scheduling considerations

How memory and power are save in RTOS


UNIT-V

Short Questions

Processor architecture and its implementation

Basic SOC model block diagram

Instruction level parallelism

Bus based approach and Network on chip approach (interconnection approaches in SoC)

Multiprocessor

Benefits and drawbacks of hardware and software implemention in Soc

Long Questions

Sequential processor

pipelined processor

superscalar processor

VLIW processor

SIMD architectures (Array and vector processor)

Memory and addressing in SoC model

SoC design model and elaborate initial design steps

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