CE 2820 - Embedded Systems III

• Use the I2C interface to communicate with external devices
• Use asynchronous serial to communicate with another computer
• Describe typical control bus signals for classic Motorola and Intel processors
• Understand address decoding for memory-mapped peripherals
• Use data sheet information for performing a timing analysis to verify compatibility between external components and a microcontroller
• Deploy custom peripherals coded in HDL to an programmable SoC device
• Design a simple memory-mapped peripheral in HDL to generate PWM signals to control actuators
• Design software to control on-chip and custom peripherals

• Good program design techniques
• Assembly language programming
• C programming
• Combination and sequential digital logic
• Hardware description language skills

• Introduction to I2C and SPI serial protocols and peripherals
• Servo motor operation
• Review of timer/counter concepts and PWM signals
• Memory timing for reads and writes on a memory bus
• Timing analysis to demonstrate timing compatibility between memory and the microcontroller
• Development of custom peripherals in HDL
• Generation and deployment of custom systems on a programmable SoC platform
• Review use of string operations to create a command line interface

• Introduction of an incremental design of an embedded system using provided milestones
• Deploy base SoC computer
• Generate custom PWM signal generator, add to SoC base computer and deploy to hardware
• Deploy vendor-supplied streaming video peripheral
• Generate API for control of complex peripherals via I2C and/or SPI
• Generate custom peripheral for video capture, add to SoC computer and deploy to hardware