Week 1 - Design

Question 1

In an embedded system block diagram, what do rectangular elements represent?

Answer 1

Hardware components

Question 2

In an embedded system block diagram, what do circular or elliptical elements represent?

Answer 2

Software components

Question 3

In an embedded system block diagram, how are hardware components represented?

Answer 3

With rectangular elements

Question 4

In an embedded system block diagram, how are software components represented?

Answer 4

With circular or elliptical elements

Question 5

In an embedded system block diagram, arrows and their text can show what three things?

Answer 5

1) Data flow direction
2) Data bandwidth
3) Data format

Question 6

In embedded system software flowcharts, what do elliptical elements represent?

Answer 6

Terminals, start and stop commands

Question 7

In embedded system software flowcharts, what do rectangular elements represent?

Answer 7

A process, a task.

Question 8

In embedded system software flowcharts, what do diamond elements represent?

Answer 8

Decisions, where flow depends on some condition being true or false.

Question 9

In embedded system software flowcharts, what do rectangular elements with a vertical strip at each side represent?

Answer 9

Subroutines

Question 10

In embedded system software flowcharts, what do parallelogram elements represent?

Answer 10

Input/Output which in software will be data read/write.

Question 11

What are the four steps in embedded system design?

Answer 11

1) use customer requirements to find design specifications. Should include consideration for functional and non function requirements as well as constraints.
2) Architecture Design (Block diagram)
3) Concurrency Diagram (optional)
4) Flow chart