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Odd Semester, 2018-19

End Sem Examinations , December 2018
B. Tech. (ECM), 2016 Batch
III/IV, 5th Semester
15EM3103: EMBEDDED SYSTEMS
Time: 3 hours Max. Marks: 60
Answer all questions sequentially (Internal choice for each Question)
CO: 1 BTL: 1,2 Marks: 15
1 (a) Discuss how we can avoid Brown out conditions with an example. 4M
(b) Illustrate the importance of the Tri state outputs. 5M
(c) Select the memory types and capacities for the design of Fast Networking System
and justify your selection. 6M
(Or)
2 (a) Discuss the challenges we face in designing an embedded system. 4M
(b) Analyze what happens if there is voltage drop of 10% and how can we avoid that 5M
(c) Explain the design process of chocolate vending machine and give the hardware
units with a neat sketch 6M
CO: 2 BTL: 1,2 Marks: 15
3 (a) Explain how a DHT11 sensor is interfaced to microcontroller through a neat sketch
and write the code for displaying the sensor data on serial monitor. 7M
(b) Illustrate interfacing of stepper motor to a microcontroller and write the code for
controlling the direction and speed of the stepper motor. 8M
(Or)
4 (a) Interface a Potentiometer to a microcontroller with a neat sketch and write code to display
analog voltage across Potentiometer connected to a Serial Monitor. 7M
(b) Define a system to fade-in and fade-out the light intensity using switch control. 8M
CO: 3 BTL: 1,2 Marks:15
5 (a) Discuss where one prefers two level bus architecture compared to single level bus
architecture?Why? 8M
(b) In a system interrupts are disabled for 125µsec. and 250 µsec. at different locations within
code. Justify whether an ISR with execution time of 300 µsec. can meet its dead line of
625 µsec. What happens if the processor speed is reduced to half? 7M
(Or)
6 (a) Illustrate the sequence of steps involved in Interrupt driven data transfer with
Vectored interrupts. 8M
(b) Distinguish between Port based I/O and Bus based I/O with examples. 7M
CO: 4 BTL: 1,2 Marks: 15
7 (a) Explain Round Robin Scheduling using a prototype and analyze the advantages and
disadvantages of the architecture 7M
(b) Analyze about the h/w and s/w co-design used for developing Embedded Systems. 8M
(Or)
8 (a) Analyze how data is shared among tasks with an example by using with in the ITC
objects. 8M
(b) Explain RTOS architecture with an example and analyze the advantages and
disadvantages of the architecture. 7M

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