EE 2920 - Embedded Systems

• Explain how a microprocessor and a microcontroller work
• Write structured programs in C
• Interpret timing diagrams and machine cycles
• Interface hardware components, such as switches, keypads, and LEDs to the parallel port of the microcontroller
• Develop interrupt driven C programs
• Develop C programs using the subsystems of a microcontroller
• Interpret and apply a standard communication protocol in an embedded system design
• Diagnose software and hardware problems
• Use a personal computer for software development and debugging

• Procedural programming concepts in C
• Number systems, basic binary arithmetic, Boolean algebra
• DC linear circuit analysis

• Elementary computer operations, architecture of a typical Harvard 8-bit microprocessor/microcontroller (1 class)
• Addressing modes, instruction set, C language programming including subroutines (2 classes)
• Number systems, basic binary arithmetic (2 classes)
• Timing, machine cycles and states (1 class)
• Parallel input/output, programmed I/O and interrupt I/O (5 classes)
• Timing system and I/O (5 classes)
• A/D and D/A conversion (4 classes)
• Serial communication (3 classes)
• Power management and sleep modes (1 class)
• Examinations and review (3 classes)

• Use of PC for developing programs, and for debugging software and hardware
• Laboratory assignments to develop language programming skills
• Laboratory assignments to develop microprocessor interfacing techniques to I/O devices
• Design projects to interface the microcontroller to real world I/O devices. Each project requires a demonstration of the working hardware and software plus a formal design report