CPE 2610 - Embedded Systems

• Given proper documentation, be able to configure and use common microcontroller subsystems such as watchdog timers, input capture timers, output compare and pulse-width modulation timers, universal asynchronous receiver-transmitters (UART), and analog-to-digital converters (ADC)
• Correctly configure bits in peripheral control registers and monitor peripheral flags and status bits to implementing appropriate algorithmic solutions to embedded design problems
• Understand the concept and usage of interrupts
• Use a high-level language to complete basic embedded system programming tasks
• Employ embedded systems development tools
• Design a basic round-robin context switching system
• Utilize function pointers to design an event driven interface

• Understanding of the C programming language including variables, control structures, subroutines, pointers, and dynamic memory
• Using multiple files in an application, header files, conditional compilation
• Good program documentation and design techniques including flowcharting and pseudocode

• Introduction to C as a portable language
• Traditional C and C99 types and custom types with typedef
• C arithmetic and bitwise operators.
• Review of pointer basics, arrays, and C memory structures
• C functions and parameter passing (by value and by reference)
• Safe usage of the stack to C program execution
• Interaction with registers via C pointers and structures
• I/O port configuration and usage
• Timer subsystems
• Interrupts, including their use related to the timer and external sources
• A/D conversion
• Serial communication and the USART subsystem
• Design of a buffered serial API
• Asynchronous serial communication (UART subsystem)
• Review of dynamic memory with malloc and free
• Function pointers and event driven applications
• Basic round-robin context switching

• Tools familiarization: assemble, download, run, and simulate a template program completed by the student
• Simple I/O program, button I/O
• Bit banging the LCD display
• Keyboard scanning program
• Timing subsystem program
• TIC and TOC Timer functionality program
• Interrupt-driven program
• A/D program
• UART serial communication program
• Console I/O
• Event driven applications with function pointers
• Round-robin context switcher