Firmware Development – Course Curriculum
What is Firmware?
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What is the Difference between a firmware and software?
Architectures
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Von Neumann Architecture
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Harvard Architecture
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AVR Architecture
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PIC Architecture
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ARM Architecture
What is RISC and CISC?
Microprocessors and microcontrollers back then and now
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Boundaries between microcontrollers and microprocessor back then
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New Boundaries between microcontrollers and microprocessor
Wired Protocols
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I2C
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SPI
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UART
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USART
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CAN Bus Protocol
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EtherNet/IP
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Profibus
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Profinet
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CANOpen
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Modbus/TCP
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RS232
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RS485
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TCP/IP
Wireless Protocols
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WiFi
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BT
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BLE 4.2 or 5.0 with Mesh
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LoRaWAN
Firmware Development – Course Curriculum
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6LoWPAN
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Zigbee
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Sub-GHz RF
Knowledge of wireless industry standards with preference to including IEEE
802.11a/b/g/n/ac/ax
JTAG and USB ASP
DSP Assembly Programming
Introduction to RTOS and FreeRTOS
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Introduction to Vxworks
What are PLA, PAL, FPGA?
Types of Memories
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Flash Memory
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RAM
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SDRAM
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ROM
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PROM
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EPROM
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EEPROM
What is Cache memory?
What is pipelining?
Introduction to ARM TrustZone and Secure OS like
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OPTEE for Trusted Execution Environment (TEE)
Comprehensions of
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ARM /X86 Boot flow
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ARM memory initialization,
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BootROM architecture and
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UBoot development
Firmware Development – Course Curriculum
Arduino and AVR
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Arduino Open Source Software.
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Advantages of Proteus IDE.(No hardware Required).
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Development Boards.
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Arduino Uno development Board.
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Hardware explantion.
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Atmega 328P explanation
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I/O
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Registers
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Timers
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Counters
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Interrupts
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Special function Registers
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Interfacing LCD (16x2)
a. Display
b. Digital Clock
c. Scrolling Name
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Right to left and then left to right
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Up to down and then down to up
Example programs to explain: Registers, Timers, Counters, Interrupts,
Special function Registers
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Protocols
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I2C
a.
SPI
b.
UART
c.
USART
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Introduction to Arduino IDE
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Introduction to Atmel Studio
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Introduction to Arduino Uno R3
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Explanation of Microcontroller ATMEGA328P
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LED Blink with Arduino UNO & AVR controller
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PWM Output generation arduino & AVR
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Reading Analog Data with Arduino UNO
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Interfacing LDR and Program automatic street light
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Interfacing Servo Motor
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Interfacing Stepper Motor
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Interfacing simple DC Motor
Firmware Development – Course Curriculum
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CAN Bus implementation
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BLDC Motor
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Encoder, Decoder
Experience working with (Git, Subversion)
Introduction to AVR Studio
Introduction to firmware development and testing tools
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GDB
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Valgrind
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SCA
PIC Mircrocontrollers
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Introduction to PIC18F
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Introduction to MPLAB X
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Input/Output
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Automatic Street Light
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Programming with some examples
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I2C
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UART
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SP I
ARM Microprocessor
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Introduction to stm32f103c8t6 ARM based microprocessor development
board and ARM Cortex M4 hands-on.
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Programming via Arduino IDE
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Programming via Keil IDE.
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Introduction to ARM Processor Families
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LED Blinking
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Boot Loading via stlink
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Debugging
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CAN Bus implementation
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Multi-threading(RTOS) hands-on
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Protocols
a.
I2C
b.
SPI
Firmware Development – Course Curriculum
c.
UART
d.
USART
IOT
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Bluetooth Protocol
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Program with HC06(AT Commands)
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WiFi Protocol
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Program with ESP8266(AT Commands)
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Local Area Network using ESP8266
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Server Connection
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(Host and Client)
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Introduction to Zigbee
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Programming and control with Zigbee
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LoRa Protocol and modules
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Introduction to LoRa Module
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Communication between two devices using LoRa