Foundation Level

Embedded C Programming

Taught by Prof. Nitin Chandrachoodan

Code CS2101

Credits 4 Credits

Type Foundation

Prerequisites

CS1101

Core Competencies

What You'll Learn

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This course addresses the use of microcontrollers (uCs) to implement embedded systems. At the end of this course, a student should be able to: identify and distinguish types of uCs, their uses, and make design selection decisions
write, compile, execute, and debug programs on generic uCs
understand interfacing of peripherals and construction of basic embedded systems involving uCs and external peripheral circuits

12-Week Roadmap

Course Structure & Syllabus

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WEEK 1

Types of microcontrollers; programmability, memory, compute capacity, functionality, interfacing

WEEK 2

Memory maps; peripheral interfacing; register mapping

WEEK 3

Typical data structures and programming styles for embedded systems

WEEK 4

General purpose IO, low speed interfaces

Reading List

Prescribed Books & References

Class Notes
The C Programming Language, Kernighan and Ritchie
Curated online reference material

Faculty & Experts

About the Instructors

Prof. Nitin Chandrachoodan

Professor , Department of Electrical Engineering , IIT Madras

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Nitin Chandrachoodan received his BTech (electronics and communication engineering) from IIT Madras in 1996, and PhD from the University of Maryland at College Park in 2002, in the area of high-level synthesis techniques for mapping DSP algorithms to architectures. He has been with the department of electrical engineering at IIT Madras since 2004, where he is currently an professor.

His research interests include digital systems design and design automation tools and techniques, as well as design of embedded systems with a special focus on assistive technologies. He has taught graduate courses on digital integrated circuit design and on mapping algorithms to architectures, and a UG course on data structures and algorithms, as well as a laboratory course on digital design using FPGAs. He is an associate editor of the Springer Journal of Signal Processing Systems.

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EE2103 • Digital System Design EE3102 • Control Engineering

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