This thesis deals with an electronic circuit and a PCB of a modular RGB LED display with the Ehernet interface. Firstly, author describes a RGB colour model, features of RGB LED displays, ways of control them. The next chapter contains a short description of the Ethernet interface, UDP and TCP protocols and a lwIP TCP/IP stack. The last theoretical chapter is an introduction to ARM Cortex-M3 and Cortex-M4 based microcontrollers. The next chaper is deals with a hardware design of the modular RGB LED display. The device is designed to be modular. Individual devices can be combosed together and create a larger display. Data from the Ethernet interface will be displayed on the RGB LED matrix, resolution of the matrix is 32 × 32 (1024 diodes). A refresh frequency is 100 Hz, a color depth is High color (16 bits) and a scanning 1/16 (two rows is driven at the same time). The next chapter describes the firmware for the RGB LED display, all its logical parts including a web page. Author also created the PC application, which sends pictures using UDP protocol to individual modules.

The master’s thesis is focused on the UHF RFID reader EXIN-1 signal processing. The first part describes the concept of the EXIN-1 front end, its basic testing and possible communication interfaces for reader control and for receiving and transmitting baseband signals. The second part of this work is aimed to a simple description of EPCglobal Class-1 Generation-2 UHF RFID Protocol, especially to used modulations and codings. In the last part, a block connection between the front end and an ARM Cortex-M4 microcontroller discovery board is designed. The microcontroller is used for generating of all required signals and also for receiving incoming signals and processing them for identification numbers of RFID cards (tags), which are in the reading range of the reader. A decoding algorithm is designed in MATLAB software and implemented to the selected microcontroller. Obtained identification data are displayed on an LCD display and also sent to a PC through a serial communication.

This Master's project deals with implementation of uC/OS-II real-time operating system on FITkit 3 platform, its testing and proving its functionality with simple examples. Describes an example of uC/OS-II application for displaying images on a E-ink display and application of ECCA method for increasing fault tolerance of the system.

The master thesis deals with the techniques to prevent computer system from computational overloading due to excessive frequency of interruptions. The goal is to document the effect of interupts on a selected computing platform containing the ARM Cortex-M4 processor core. The work describes and implements possible software techniques that reduce the impact of consequences of overload due to excessive interruption frequency. At the same time the work verifies and compares the effectiveness of the particular implemented techniques by appropriate set of experiments.