Embedded Systems

C & Data Structures:

Introduction to C, Elements of C, Operators, Flow Control Statements, Functions, Arrays, Pointers, Macros, Dynamic Memory Allocation, Strings, Structures, Unions, File handling, Enumeration (or enum), Renaming Data types with typedef, Bit-Manipulation, Type Casting, Executable file format, command-line arguments, qualifiers, Compilation stages, Debugging Techniques, Data Structure Basics, Arrays, Single & double linked list, Stack and Queue, Sorting Techniques, Searching Techniques, construction of libraries.

OS concepts and socket programming:

Kernel Architecture, CPU Scheduling, Deadlock & starvation, Linux Interfaces, APIs and System Calls(Shell& Services, Utilities, Applications, Libraries), Memory Management, File Sub-System, Process Control, signals, threads, IPC Mechanisms (POSIX & SYSTEM-V), High Performance, Secure coding through OS features, Network, Internet protocols(TCP/UDP), Client-Server Programming, Multi-threaded Programming, Lab Practice, and assignments.

Kernel and device drivers:

Introduction to Embedded Linux & its basics, Embedded Linux Build System Tools, Make files and kconfig files, Toolchains, Kernel configuration, and compilation, Yocto project, Build root, Git version control system, Device Drivers(character, block & network), Device model in Linux, Kernel API’s, Virtual file systems /proc and /sysfs, kobject, ksets, mmap, ioremap, kmap, platform_device, platform_driver, Device Tree, Interrupts, Concurrency and Race condition handling.

Communication Protocols : UART, I2C, SPI, USB,PCI.

Architectures: X-86, ARM.

Tools: VI editor, CC Compiler, GDB (Debugger), Executable file format, Obj-dump,read-elf, Make files & Make Utilities, strace, ltrace, mtrace, dtrace, mtrace & Valgrind.

Projects:

Device drivers with practical examples on Host and Development Boards.

(C/Device Driver project using Raspberry PI/Beagle-bone Black boards).

Practical knowledge & experience in various Industrial Instruments and Equipment.