Preparatory Course for Embedded System Design

Course Focus

This course focuses on imparting basic and fundamental skills for programming in C and understanding concepts of Data Structures as well as understanding the architecture of Microcontrollers. This course prepares the students for taking admission to Certificate Course in Embedded System Design of Pune University.

Course Structure

6 weeks (150 hours), Lectures 2 hrs/day, Practical 2 hrs/day.

Course Fee

Rs. 5,000.00 (the course fee will be reimbursed if the student takes admission to Pune University Certificate Course in Embedded System Design)

Eligibility

BE / B. Tech. (Electronics, Electronics & Telecommunication, Instrumentation, Electrical), M.Sc. (Electronics & Instrumentation), or equivalent. Final year students may apply.

Course Syllabus

Topic	No. of hours
Foundation of Computing Evolutions of computers Computer generations Computer organization Primary and Secondary storage Input-output devices Computer software Operating systems Data communications and computer networking Multimedia Classification of computers	20 hrs
Programming in C and Data Structures Introductory concepts C Fundamentals Operators and Expressions Data Input and Output Control statement Functions Arrays Pointers	80 hrs
Operating System Concepts OS Architecture Understanding File Systems File attributes and permissions File handling utilities The vi editor (Linux) Customizing the work environment Commands and Utilities (Windows and Linux)	20 hrs
Microcontrollers 8 bit microcontroller(PIC/8051) Study of architecture Interfacing concepts for new devices	20 hrs
General Aptitude Practice	10 hrs
Total	150 hrs