CPE 3600 - Advanced Embedded Systems

• 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 datasheet information for performing a timing analysis to verify compatibility between external components and a microcontroller
• Deploy custom peripherals coded in HDL to a programmable SoC device
• Design a simple memory-mapped peripheral in HDL to generate PWM signals to control actuators
• Design an interface to drive an LCD Touchscreen
• Design software to control on-chip and custom peripherals

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

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

• Introduction of an incremental design of an embedded system using provided milestones
• Deployment and configuration of a SoC computer
• Generate custom PWM signal generator, added to an SoC computer with deployment to hardware
• Driving LCD Touch Screen with a DMA Buffer
• Touch capture using an LCD Touch Screen
• Generation of APIs for control of complex peripherals via I2C and/or SPI