Education on Architecture Development for Embedded Controllers

The performance of a control system depends on its design and implementation. Embedded controllers are the controllers designed on compact embedded systems. Embedded controllers are gaining popularity in industrial applications as the embedded system provides benefits on power consumption, size, cost etc. The education on designing architecture for embedded controllers for (Field Programmable Gate Array) FPGA and Application Specific Integrated Circuits (ASIC) technologies helps in further customization. This paper presents the architecture designs for simple embedded controllers and gives a framework to design architectures for controllers. A novel approach to understand the designing architecture for embedded controller is proposed. This designing technique can be a part of a course on Embedded Control Systems.