Official NUC CCMAS syllabus
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Start studying MCE 403 free →Introduction to embedded systems, history, design challenges, optimizing design metrics, time to market, applications of embedded systems and recent trends in embedded systems, embedded design concepts and definitions, memory management, hardware and software design and testing, communication protocols like SPI, I2C, CAN etc. RISC Design Philosophy, comparison between CISC and RISC; PIC/AVR/ARM Design Philosophy; Embedded System hardware, Embedded System software. PIC/AVR/ARM Processor fundamentals – PIC/AVR/ARM core architecture, data flow model, Register, Current Program Status Register, Pipeline, Exceptions, Interrupts and Vector Table, Core Extensions, PIC/AVR/ARM Processor families. PIC16F18877/ATmega328P/ATSAM3X8E Cortex-M3 processors Block diagram and pin diagram, operating modes: Study of on-chip peripherals like I/O ports, timers, counters, interrupts, on-chip ADC, DAC, RTC modules, WDT, PLL, PWM and USB. Hardware interfacing of PIC16F18877/ATmega328P/ATSAM3X8E Cortex-M3 using CCS C Compiler/Flowcode/Embedded C language: LED, Switches, LCD Display & stepper motor. On- chip programming: UART, Timer, Real-Time Clock & ADC. Others include Architecture of kernel, task and task scheduler, ISR, Mutex, Semaphores, mailbox, message queues, pipes, events, timers, Priority inversion problem, priority Inheritance, RTOS services in contrast with traditional OS. Introduction to μco
Source: the Nigerian Universities Commission (NUC) Core Curriculum and Minimum Academic Standards (CCMAS). StudyOps loads this syllabus automatically when you study MCE 403.