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The document is an exam paper for an Embedded System Design course. It contains two parts - Part A with 10 short answer questions worth a total of 25 marks, and Part B with 5 longer answer questions worth 10 marks each for a total of 50 marks. The questions cover topics related to embedded systems including characteristics, hardware components, general purpose vs domain specific processors, memory allocation, firmware design, bus frequency changes, scheduling methods, RTOS design principles, device drivers and inter-task communication.

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The document is an exam paper for an Embedded System Design course. It contains two parts - Part A with 10 short answer questions worth a total of 25 marks, and Part B with 5 longer answer questions worth 10 marks each for a total of 50 marks. The questions cover topics related to embedded systems including characteristics, hardware components, general purpose vs domain specific processors, memory allocation, firmware design, bus frequency changes, scheduling methods, RTOS design principles, device drivers and inter-task communication.

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Code No: 117CZ R13

JAWAHARLAL NEHRU TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY HYDERABAD


B. Tech IV Year I Semester Examinations, November/December - 2017
EMBEDDED SYSTEM DESIGN
(Common to ECE, ETM)
Time: 3 Hours Max. Marks: 75
Note: This question paper contains two parts A and B.
Part A is compulsory which carries 25 marks. Answer all questions in Part A. Part B
consists of 5 Units. Answer any one full question from each unit. Each question
carries 10 marks and may have a, b, c as sub questions.

PART- A
(25 Marks)
1.a) List the characteristics of an embedded system. [2]
b) What is the difference between a system and an embedded system? [3]
c) What is actuator? [2]
d) What are the considerations for processor selection? [3]
e) Explain the role of reset circuit in an embedded system. [2]
f) What is the difference between real time clock and watchdog time. [3]
g) When do you use cooperative scheduling? [2]
h) What is the function of timer in RTOS? [3]
i) What is Remote Procedure Call and explain its working? [2]
j) What is meant by concurrency of task execution in real time system? [3]

PART-B
(50 Marks)

2.a) Explain the major application areas of embedded systems.


b) What are the components of Embedded System Hardware? [5+5]
OR
3. Discuss the purpose of embedded systems. List the design metrics used to compare them.
[10]

4. With a neat diagram, explain the architecture of a general purpose processor. [10]
OR
5.a) Write the difference between general purpose processors and domain specific processors.
b) Discuss the aspects of memory allocation and mapping in embedded domain. [5+5]

6.a) What are the design criteria of external brown-out protection circuit.
b) How to design and implement firmware for embedded systems? [5+5]
OR
7. Explain with one example, how to change the bus frequency of the processor. [10]

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8.a) How do we initiate round robin time series scheduling?
b) How lower priority task executes in a preemptive scheduler? [5+5]
OR
9. Write the basic design principles when using an RTOS to design of sample RTOS.[10]

10. Explain in detail the following device drivers


a) Serial port device driver
b) Device drivers for internal programmable timing devices. [5+5]
OR
11.a) Explain the inter task communication offered by RTOS.
b) Explain message-passing communication system in detail. [5+5]

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