Embedded Systems Training Institute in Hyderabad

EMBEDDED REAL-TIME SYSTEMS
[This Training Course covers 8 modules]

• Domain Knowledge (Covering Embedded Systems)
• C Programming
• Micro Controllers (Practical/Application Programming)
• Linux Internals(Programming Environment)
• Linux Network Programming(Protocol Development Operations)
• Device Driver Programming in Linux
• Embedded Linux using ARM9 (Ex: Mobile Phones)
• Real-Time Operating System

Module # 1
Domain Knowledge

• What is Embedded System & why it is Popular?
• Who Should Learn?
• What Programming Languages in Embedded Systems?
• Embedded Development Life Cycle (EDLC)
• Categories of Embedded Systems
• Embedded System Design Issues (H/W & S/W)
• Inside Embedded Systems
• How to learn Advanced Embedded standards?
• Embedded System Applications

Module # 2

C Programming

• Fundamentals of C
• Control Flow
• Data types, Operators & ExpressionsFunctions

Function

• Function type and return value
• Pass by value and pass by reference
• Output parameters
• Local variables & Static variables

Arrays

• Initialization
• One-dimensional & Two-dimensional array initialization

Pointers

• Introduction to Pointers
• Types of pointers
• Pointer Arithmetic
• Pointers as Function Arguments

Structures

• Packing of elements within a structure
• Accessing members of a structure with structure variables
• Structure pointers
  


• Memory Allocation Techniques [Static, Dynamic]
• File Management [Opening of File, Writing to File, Reading form File, Control Operations on Files & Closing of File]

Data Structures

• Stacks
• Queues (Linear queues & Circular queues)
• Linked Lists [Operations on linked lists, Single linked lists, Double linked lists]

           
Module # 3

Linux Internals

• What is Open Source and why do you care?
• Linux features and characteristics
• Protected memory
• Processes
• Foreground vs. background
• Users and Groups
• Root user
• Graphical desktop environment—KDE
• Linux Distributions
• Architecture
• File System
• Basic aspects, Root File System, VFS
• Mouting a file system, Superblock, The Inode concept and operations
• File operations, Directory cache
• Proc file system, Ext2/Ext3 file system (Structure, Directories, Block allocation,     Extensions) , File system Hierarchy Standard (FHS)
• Editors (Vi & Emacs)
• Introduction to Linkers, Loaders and Debuggers
• API vs. System calls
• System Calls
• Initialization
• Process management
• Memory management
• Communication
• File system
• Adding new System Calls
• Linux Commands & Shell Scripting
• Debugging applications
• Practical Work-I
• Multiprocessing & Multithreading
• Decision Criteria
• A Look inside a Process
• Thread Creation & Destruction
• Thread Synchronization
• Process Creation & Destruction
• Foreground and Background Processes
• Zombie Processes
• Signal Handling
• Interprocess Communication
• Using Signals for Interprocess Communication
• Criteria for Choice
• Catching Signals
• Sending Signals
• Kernel IPC Facilities
• Shared Memory, Semaphores, Message Queues
• Managing Kernel IPC Resources
• Pipes, Pipe Lines
• Named Pipes
• Practical Work-II
• System V (Threads, Message Queues, Semaphores)
• POSIX (Threads, Semaphores & Spin locks)
• An Introduction to Graphics in Linux

Module # 4

Linux Network Programming

• Network Structures
• OSI vs. TCP/IP model
• Typical Protocols
• LAN standards
• Wireless
• Protocols [TCP, UDP, IP (IPv4 & IPv6), ICMP, IGMP, ARP & RARP]

Practical Work-I


Socket Programming

• What is Socket?
• Client and Server Model
• Socket API Interface
• Connectionless and connection oriented protocols (UDP/TCP)
• Algorithms and Issues in Client & Server software design
• Socket Address Structures
• Socket options
• Programs on various client/server designs

Practical Work-II

Module # 5

Device Drivers in Linux

• Linux 2.4 & 2.6 device driver architectures
• Character vs. Block devices
• Polling and interrupts
• Implementation
• Module Management
• Interfaces to modules
• Version numbering
• Adding/removing modules to the Kernel
• Implementation details

Virtual File System (VFS)
Practical Work-I

Network

• Layer model
• Network communications
• Data structures
• Devices
  

Advanced Driver Programming

• Linux Device Model
• Playing with New Devices
  

Bus Access

PCI, USB & Serial
Practical Work-II

Module # 6

Embedded Linux on ARM
What is Embedded Linux?
Why do we need Linux in Embedded Systems?
Advanced RISC Machine (ARM)

• High-speed Processors (8/16/32 & 64-bit Processors)
• Introduction to ARM7/ARM9/ARM11
• Architecture, Register Set
• ARM Processor Core
• Modes of Operation
  

ARM Development Environment

• Touch Screens
• USB
• LCD and many more…

Practical Work-I
Embedded System Booting Process

• Building a Compiler-Tool chain
• Building an Embedded Linux
• Linux kernel-2.6(Configuration & Compilation)
• Root File System Building Process
  

Porting Linux Kernel & Root File System to ARM9 Board

Practical Work-II

Module # 7

Real Time Operating System

• Why RTOS is required?
• RTLinux vs. Linux
• Multi tasking, Intertask Communication
• Intertask Synchronization & Mutual exclusion
• Interrupts
• Developing Applications using RTOS