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OSMANIA UNIVERSITY
FACULTY OF ENGINEERING
UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING (AUTONOMOUS)
B.E. IV/IV (BME) I-Semester (Main) Examination
November/December 2017
MEDI EMBEDDED SYSTEM & RTOS
Time : 3 hours Max. Marks : 75
Note : i) Answer All Questions in Part – A and any five questions from Part – B.

ii) Answers to the questions of Part – A must be at one place and in the
same order as they occur in the question paper.
iii) Missing data, if any, may suitably be assumed.

PART-A [Marks: 25]

A. 1. Define an embedded system. List the applications of embedded system [ 3]

with examples.

B. What is meant by context switching? [ 3]

C. Define co-design. [ 2]

D. What will happen at system startup? [ 2]

E. Define task and task states. [ 3]

F. Differentiate the preemptive and non-preemptive operating system. [ 2]

G. Draw the keypad interface details. [ 2]

H. Write the salient features of bluetooth technology. [ 3]

I. What is meant by design methodology? [ 2]

J. Write about concurrent engineering model. [ 3]

PART-B [Marks: 50]

1. Explain in detail the specifications and architectures of fetal heart rate [10 ]
monitor.

2. Discuss in detail about the architecture of 8051 microcontroller with [10 ]

neat diagrams.

3. Describe how semaphore can be used for inter-task synchronization. [10 ]

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4. Discuss how to select the processor in hardware design phase of [10 ]

embedded system development.

5. Discuss in detail about the hardware software partitioning of the [10]

embedded system.

6. Explain the hardware architecture of an embedded system with neat [10 ]

sketch.

7. Write short note on the following:

a) Special considerations in designing embedded system. [5]

b) Salient features of Ethernet. [5]

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