AKTU Embedded Sensing Technologies (HTST701) Syllabus PDF – B.Tech Honors Degree in Sensor and Transducer Technology

Course Objectives

1. Introducing fundamentals of sensing and exploration of various sensors widely used for real life application.
2. Making a shift towards advanced microcontrollers for interfacing sensors.

Course Outcomes

1. Understand the working principle and behavior of sensors.
2. Relate and realize the importance automotive sensors and bio medical sensors.
3. Differentiate and associate the architecture, instruction set, interrupts of MSP430 and ARM Cortex M4.
4. Know the ARM peripherals programming and interfacing with advanced cortex MX microcontroller.
5. Design and interface sensors with embedded controllers.

Course Content

UNIT- I: INTRODUCTIONOF SENSORS

Principles of sensing capacitance, magnetic and electromagnetic, inductionresistance piezoelectric effect heat transfer. Physical sensors, Optical Detectors and lightSensors.Electrical Potentials and Propagation of Nerve Signals.

UNIT- II: AUTOMOTIVE AND BIO-MEDICAL SENSORS

Pressure, Engine temperature, Airflow, Combustion, Torque, Accelerometers, Gas composition sensors, Liquid level sensors, Electrodes, EMG, ECG, EEG, Blood pressure.

UNIT- III: LOW POWER MICROCONTROLLER

MSP430: Architecture, Memory, Addressing modes, Instruction set, Clock system, Exceptions:

Interrupts and resets - Low power mode.

UNIT- IV: ARM CORTEX AND ADVANCED CORTEX MX PROCESSOR

ARM Cortex M4: Assembly language basics, Thumb-2 Technology, ARM Instruction set, Cortex M4 architecture, advantages, peripherals, instruction set, floating point operations. Core, Architecture, on chip wifi, configuring WLAN, on CHIP 6LoWPAN and configuration.

UNIT- V: ARM PERIPHERALS PROGRAMMING AND INTERFACING

Principle of data acquisition, ADC, DAC ,Sensor interface, single channel, multichannel Digital input/output, LCD Displays, Watchdog timers, timers, SPI, I2C, UART, ZigBee controller

Text Books

1. Jacob Fraden, Handbook of Modern Sensors: Physics, Design and Applications, 2016, 5th Edition, Springer, USA.
2. John H. Davies, MSP430 Microcontroller Basics, Newones, 2011, second edition, Elsevier, B.TECH (BSW) Page 119 USA.

Reference Books

1. John Turner, Automotive Sensors, 2012, Momentum Press, USA.
2. J. G. Webster, Medical Instrumentation; Application and Design, 2010, 4th Edition, John Wiley, USA.
3. John G Webster, Measurement, Instrumentation and sensors Handbook, 2014, CRC Press, USA.
4. Jonathan W Valvano, Embedded Systems: Introduction to ARM Cortex -M Microcontrollers, 2017, 5th edition, University of Texas, USA.