ECE 36200 - Microprocessor Systems and Interfacing
Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 3 Credits: 4 Professional AttributesAdvanced EE Selective
CMPE Core
Upper Level Lab
Normally Offered: Each Fall, Spring
Requisites:
ECE 27000 Minimum Grade of C and (CS 15900 or ENGR 11700)
Requisites by Topic:
Prerequisites: High level language programming fundamentals, digital systems design fundamentals, familiarity with hardware description languages (e.g., ABEL) and programmable logic devices (PDSs).
Catalog Description:
An introduction to microcontroller instruction sets, assembly language programming, microcontroller interfacing, microcontroller peripherals, and embedded system design.
Supplementary Information:
Nature of Design Experience: Through the completion of homework exercises, laboratory experiments, and an Embedded System Design Mini-Project, students will learn how to design, implement, and test a microcontroller-based embedded system.
- Embedded Systems with ARM Cortex-M Microcontrollers in Assembly Language and C, 3rd Edition, Yifeng Zhu, E-Man Press LLC, 2017, ISBN No. 978-0-98226926-6-0.
Recommended Text(s): None.
Learning Outcomes:
A student who successfully fulfills the course requirements will have demonstrated:- an ability to program a microcontroller to perform various tasks. [1]
- an ability to interface a microcontroller to various devices. [1,2,6]
- an ability to effectively utilize microcontroller peripheral. [4]
- an ability to design and implement a microcontroller-based embedded system. [1,4,5]
Lecture Outline:
| Week(s) | Lecture Topics |
| 3 | Module 1: Microcontroller Programming. Introduction to microcontrollers, ARM architecture and programming model, assembly instructions, assembly programming, embedded C. |
| 3 | Module 2: Microcontroller Interfacing: General-purpose I/O, interrupts and exceptions, bus timing analysis, hardware abstraction layer. |
| 4 | Module 3: Microcontroller Peripherals. Timer module (TIM), analog-to-digital conversion (ADC), digital-to-analog conversion (DAC), pulse width modulation (PWM), asynchronous serial communication (UART), serial peripheral interface (SPI), inter-integrated circuit interface (I2C), IC-to-IC sound interface (I2C). |
| 4 | Module 4: Embedded System Design. Mini-Project overview, printed circuit board layout, external interfacing, discrete components, power supply design, soldering and assembly, IoT case study, reliability and safety, legal and regulatory requirements. |
| 1 | Mini-Project demos, Spark Challenge Design Showcase. |
Lab Outline:
| Week(s) | Lab Experiments |
| 0 | Getting started lab introduction |
| 1 | "Hello World" |
| 2 | Assembly Programming |
| 3 | Embedded Hardware |
| 4 | Timing and Interrupts |
| 5 | Fundamentals of Embedded C |
| LP1 | Midterm Lab Practical Exam |
| 6 | Analog-to-Digital Conversion |
| 7 | Pulse Width Modulation |
| 8 | Hardware Abstraction Layer |
| 9 | Asynchronous Serial Communication (UART) |
| 10 | Serial Peripheral Interface (SPI) |
| LP2 | Final Lab Practical Exam |
| MP | Mini-Project (two weeks) |
Engineering Design Content:
Analysis
Construction
Testing
Engineering Design Consideration(s):
Ethical
Health/Safety