Sri Lanka Institute of Information Technology Embedded Systems Design 252 Semester 2, 2009 Tutorial 1

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Sri Lanka Institute of Information Technology

Embedded Systems Design 252


Semester 2, 2009
Tutorial 1

1. Name the available 3 computer subsystems and briefly describe them.


2. With aid of a diagram describe how the 3 buses connect the subsystems.
3. Illustrate the Von Neumann and Harvard computer architectures.
4. What are Microcontroller families? Include examples in the answer.
5. A microcontroller consists of a 16bit address bus and 8bit data bus. (One
addressable location is 8bits long)

What is the maximum memory it can access?


How many cycles does it take to access a 16 bit value from
memory?

6. Describe how you could use a microcontroller to automate a car window


mechanism.

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