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This document discusses embedded systems concepts including: 1. Connecting analog and digital worlds through interfaces like physical connections, handshakes, and timing characteristics. 2. Common digital interfaces like parallel, serial, UART, SPI and standards like RS-232, USB, and I2O. 3. Examples of using serial interfaces with microcontrollers and issues around shared data and interrupts.

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06 Lec Input - Output

This document discusses embedded systems concepts including: 1. Connecting analog and digital worlds through interfaces like physical connections, handshakes, and timing characteristics. 2. Common digital interfaces like parallel, serial, UART, SPI and standards like RS-232, USB, and I2O. 3. Examples of using serial interfaces with microcontrollers and issues around shared data and interrupts.

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EE522

Advanced Embedded Systems

Sources: [Introduction to Embedded Systems, Edward A.


Lee and Sanjit A. Seshia, UC Berkeley.
Embedded Networked Systems, Kai Huang, TU Munich]

2-1
Connecting the Analog and
Digital Worlds
Cyber: Physical:
• Digital • Continuum
• Discrete in time • Continuous in time
• Sequential • Concurrent
Interfaces

• Physical Connection
• Handshake
• Multiple connections
• Timing Characteristics

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A Typical Microcomputer Board
This board has
analog and digital
inputs and outputs.
What are they?
How do they work?
Parallel vs. Serial Digital Interfaces
 Parallel
 Multiple data lines transmitting data
 Speed
 Ex: PCI, ATA, CF cards, Bus
 Serial
 Single data line transmitting data
 Low Power, length
 Ex: USB, SATA, SD cards,
PCI-Express
Simple Digital Output: GPIO
Open collector circuits
are often used on GPIO
(general-purpose I/O) pins
of a microcontroller.

The same pin can be used


for input and output. And
multiple users can connect
to the same bus.

Why is the current


limited?
Serial Interfaces
The old but persistent RS-232 standard
supports asynchronous serial
connections (no common clock). Many but not all uses of
How does it work? RS-232 are being
replaced by USB, which
is electrical simpler but
with a more complex
protocol.

Uppercase ASCII "K" character (0x4b)


with 1 start bit, 8 data bits, 1 stop bit.
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UART: Universal Asynchronous
Receiver-Transmitter
• Convert serial data to
parallel data, and vice
versa.
• Uses shift registers to
load store data
• Can raise interrupt
when data is ready
• Commonly used with
RS-232 interface

Variant: USART: Universal Synchronous/Asynchronous


Receiver-Transmitter
Example Using a Serial Interface
In an Atmel AVR 8-bit microcontroller, to send a
byte over a serial port, the following C code will do:

while(!(UCSR0A & 0x20));


UDR0 = x;

• x is a variable of type uint8.


• UCSR0A and UDR0 are variables defined in
header.
• They refer to memory-mapped registers in the
UART.
Send a Sequence of Bytes
for(i = 0; i < 8; i++) {
while(!(UCSR0A & 0x20));
UDR0 = x[i];
}
How long will this take to execute? Assume:
• 57600 baud serial speed.
• 8/57600 =139 microseconds.
• Processor operates at 18 MHz.
Each while loop will consume 2500 cycles.
Receiving via UART
Again, on an Atmel AVR:
while(!(UCSR0A & 0x80));
return UDR0;

• Wait until the UART has received an incoming


byte.
• The programmer must ensure there will be one!
• If reading a sequence of bytes, how long will this
take?

Under the same assumptions as before, it will take


2500 cycles to receive each byte.
Standards
 Serial:
 Synchronous:
• SPI, I2C, JTAG, USB
 Asynchronous:
• RS232
 Parallel:
 Bus protocols
• Advanced Technology Attachment (ATA)
• Peripheral Component Interface (PCI)
• …
An I/O View of a
Microcontroller
Another I/O View of a
Microcontroller
Interrupt example: Pitfalls
static int iTemperatures[2]; Use “volatile” keyword here!
void interrupt vReadTemperatures (void) {
iTemperatures[0] = //Read value from hardware 1
iTemperatures[1] = //Read value from hardware 2
}
void main(void) {
int iTemp0, iTemp1;
// Setup code
iTemperatures[0] = 0;
iTemperatures[1] = 0;
while(TRUE) { What if interrupt
iTemp0 = iTemperatures[0]; updates both
iTemp1 = iTemperatures[1]; values here?
if ( iTemp0 != iTemp1 ) {
// Set off alarm! What if compiler
} optimizes this to
} if false { set off
} alarm}
Interrupt example revisited
static volatile int iTemperatures[2];
void interrupt vReadTemperatures (void) {
iTemperatures[0] = //Read value from hardware 1
iTemperatures[1] = //Read value from hardware 2
}

void main(void) {
int iTemp0, iTemp1;
//Setup code

while(TRUE) {
disableInterrupts();
iTemp0 = iTemperatures[0];
iTemp1 = iTemperatures[1];
enableInterrupts();
if ( iTemp0 != iTemp1 )
// Set off alarm!
}
}
Shared Data
 Data consistency
 Critical Section
• Need to protect portion of the code from other access
• Disable interrupts
 Compiler Optimizations
• Various optimization techniques
• Volatile keyword, or turn off optimizations

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