Dear students,

The syllabus for the mid-term examination includes:

Unit 1: Introduction to Embedded Systems, overview of the Embedded Systems, Classification,

Design considerations, Applications, IC Technologies, Design Technologies and the topics
covered in the class

Unit 2. Microprocessors and Microcontrollers, Classification of Microcontrollers, Designers

perspective for selecting a microcontroller, Applications of Microcontroller, Introduction to
8051 Microcontroller, History, overview, 8051 family. Embedded system, 8051 architecture,
Memory organisation, on-chip memory organization, External Memory Organization, Special
Function Registers, Timer/counter, Clock, Reset, and the topics covered in the class

Unit 3. Assembly Language programming, program development process, directives,

Addressing Modes, Data Movement, External data movement, Data exchange, Push and Pop
instructions, Arithmetic Instructions, Decimal arithmetic, Signed arithmetic 8-bit, 16-bit, BCD
arithmetic, increment, decrement, logical instructions, Unary operations, Bit processing, Flow
control instructions, Look-up tables, Jump tables, 8051 ports, port configurations, Time delay
generation, Timer/Counter programming, timers, counters and the topics covered in the class.