MATRUSRI ENGINEERING COLLEGE

SAIDABAD, HYDERABAD – 500 059

DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRONICS & COMMUNICATION ENGINEERING
EMBEDDED SYSTEMS
ASSIGNMENT -II

1. Discuss about PCI/PCI-X Buses

2. Distinguish between Synchronous , ISO-Synchronous and Asynchronous Communication?

3. What is locator?

4. Differentiate between cross compiler and cross assembler

5. Why is host system used for most stages of development, test and simulation

6. What is logic analyser ?What is the use of Logic analyser during development phase

7. What are CAN versions and its throughput? Justify its unique importance compared with
other serial protocols

8. Differentiate Host vs Target?

9. What is the full form of SPI ? Mention its advatages and disadvantages.

10. Mention any two important points for configuring Ethernet over ip

11. List any two CPUs which are used in designing embedded systems?Mention the compilers
used to program these CPU’s
12. Mention the advantage of logic analyser . Differentiate the timing mode Vs State mode in
logic analyser
 MATRUSRI ENGINEERING COLLEGE
SAIDABAD, HYDERABAD – 500 059
DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRONICS & COMMUNICATION ENGINEERING
EMBEDDED SYSTEMS
ASSIGNMENT -II

13. List two advantages of serial communication over parallel communication

14. Describe TCP/IP Protocol.

15. With reference to the design life cycle,what are

i) Product life time
ii) Design time
iii) Cost of re-engineering
16. What is ROM Emulator

17. What is an IDE

18. For a digital clock , what are the interrupts?

19. How many fields does a CAN Frame contain? What are they?

20. With reference to AMBA how does it help in co ordinating with the peripherals of different
speeds?

21. What is a linker?

22. Give two advantages of instruction set simulators

23. What is inline assembly language?

24. Mention two important issues of porting TCP/IP Stack into a microcontroller for designing a
networked embedded system

25. What is the importamce of i2c protocol compared with other serial protocols.

26. What is the method being opted for testing an interrupt service routine written in either in
assembly or in embedded c using a cross compiler IDE?
 MATRUSRI ENGINEERING COLLEGE
SAIDABAD, HYDERABAD – 500 059
DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRONICS & COMMUNICATION ENGINEERING
EMBEDDED SYSTEMS
ASSIGNMENT -II

27. Differentiate traditional compiler Vs Cross Compiler.Give two examples.

28. Define incircuit Emulator(Embedded ICE)

29. Mention the techniques available to port or burn an embedded application into actual
target micro controller unit (MCU)
30. What is AMBA bus? Mention any two important characteristics of it in ARM?

31. Define Cross compiler and Mention any two examples cross compilers.

32. What is JTAG ?Why it is used in Embedded Systems

33. Define null modem . Explain the importance of it in testing networking designs.

34. What is inline assembly?

35. What is an ISR?

36. List out various inter process communication methods in a real time system.

37. What do you mean by hot attachment and detachment

38. Explain hardware-software and co-design issues in detail.

39. What are the performance and performance accelerators