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Electronics Engineering (Semester 7)
Total marks: 80
Total time: 3 Hours
INSTRUCTIONS
(1) Question No. 1 is compulsory
(2) Solve any three from remaining five questions
(3) Draw neat diagrams wherever necessary
1(a) Justify the need for brown-out detection circuit in embedded systems environment and the mechanism of implementing the same.
(5 marks)
00
1(b) What is a watch-dog timer, its use and typical application for an embedded system.
(5 marks)
00
1(c) Explain the structure of typical C source program for ARM based target processor. Typically list the various data types along-with memory size supported by a C compiler.
(5 marks)
191
188
1(d) Compare the serial communication protocols RS - 232C and RS - 485 protocols.
(5 marks)
164
2(a) Write a note on the interrupt structure of Cortex - M architecture.
(10 marks)
185
2(b) Explain the utilisation bound in task scheduling in light of Rate Monotonic Scheduling algorithm.
(10 marks)
00
3(a) What is a task and various states that a task can lie in for an embedded environment.
(10 marks)
200
3(b) Explain briefly the register structure of Cortex - M3 architecture along-with the function of various special registers.
(10 marks)
180
4(a) Compare the features of Cortex-A8 and Cortex-R4 architectures.
(10 marks)
171
4(b) Explain the operation and significance of following Micro C/OS - II functions
- OSSemPend(); & OSSemPost();
- OSMboxPost(); & OSMboxPend();
(10 marks)
207
5(a) Write a bried note on boundary scan architecture.
(10 marks)
210
5(b) Explain the various inter-process task communication and synchronization tools like semaphores, mutex, mailbox and pipe used by an RTOS environment.
(10 marks)
204
6 Write short notes on (Any two)
- a) Problem of priority inversion and mechanism to prevent the same.
206
- b) MSP-430 architecture and its low power capability.
176
- c) Design metrics for a typical embedded system.
59
(20 marks)
00