1st Week
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Date |
Lecture |
Goals of the Lecture |
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Friday Morning |
Introduction
Lecture 1
Introduction to Microprocessors: Lecture 2a
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To inform
the students about the course. Students should get used with the computer
(login in/out) and the web page of the course. Introduction/Review
of digital electronics. Introduction
to binary, hex notation and 2’s
complement arithmetic. Learn how does the computer performs arithmetic
operations and how does it store numbers in the memory. Description of the
ALU and the Flags. Elementary circuits that store bits are discussed.
Circuits that add and multiply are also discussed. |
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Monday Morning |
Assembly Language (I): Lecture 2b
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Introduction
to the ATMEL Atmega103
processor architecture and the ATMEL STK300+ programming board. The students
learn the first Assembly commands and write a simple I/O program that turns
on/off the LEDs of PORTB. Next they write a program the adds two numbers and
outputs the result on PORTB LEDs. Finally they program the Atmega103 as a
counter and see the results with the scope. |
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Monday Afternoon |
The AVR Studio
Simulator Lecture 2b
(continued) |
The
students are taught the STUDIO AVR simulator and thye learn to run programs
and debug them using it. The are also give a demonstration on the use of the
stack and the stack-pointer. |
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Thursday Afternoon |
AssemblyLanguage (II) Lecture 3
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The Mega103
Status Register, Branch Commands, Subroutines, SRAM I/O. The students write
subroutines that delay the 8 bit counter they made in the previous lecture so
they can see the results using the board LEDs. Learning about, Tables,
Program memory I/O, and Pointers. At the end the students write a program
that displays patterns on the programming board LEDs using a table and
pointers. Demonstration using Studio of subroutine calling and the stack
operation using it. |
2nd
Week
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Date |
Lecture |
Goals of the Lecture |
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Friday Morning |
3 Byte Memory Lecture 4
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Computer
Bus, Tri-state logic, Address Decoding, and Write Strobes. The students
construct a slave which has 3x 1-Byte registers driven by the Atmega103 Port
A and C (Master). The 74HC138, and 74HC574 ICs are used along with various
logic gates At the end the Students are requested to write assembly programs
that test their logic by looping data through. |
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Monday Morning |
No Lecture: Project work on the 3byte memory.
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During this
session the students learn to make electronics schematics, use the scopes and
in general construct and trouble-shoot an electronics design. |
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Monday Afternoon |
No Lecture: Project work on the 3byte memory. |
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Thursday |
Serial versus parallel data transfers. Lecture 4a
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The
concepts of serial and parallel data transfers are described. The students
learn the operational principles of a shift register. At the end they
construct a device that converts from parallel data to serial and back to
parallel using the 74HC164 and 74HC165 shift registers. |
3th Week
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Date |
Lecture |
Goals of the Lecture |
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Friday |
No Lecture: Project
work on the Serial vs. Parallel data project. |
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Monday |
Device Drivers – LCD Display Lecture 5
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The
students Learn about Device
Drivers and they
are given the software (Initialization, clearing, writing routines) to
operate an LCD display. At the and they are asked to write A simple
user interface using the Atmega103 PORTD switches and the LCD display module. |
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Monday Afternoon |
Analog to Digital Converters. Lecture 8
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The 8
channel on board ADC and its operation is introduced. A sample program is
downloaded from the course web site. The
students are asked to make a digital voltmeter. |
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Thursday |
Diodes Transistors and Applications Lecture 6
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This Lecture is a review of the
diodes and transistors and their uses in analog and digital electronics. At
the end the students construct AND, OR, NOR, NOT gates using
transistors. |
4th Week
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Date |
Lecture |
Goals of the Lecture |
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Friday |
The 4x4 Keyboard Lecture 7
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The 4x4
keyboard is introduced and they students start writing a device driver for
it. The Keyboard and the LCD display will be used later for their project
which involved making a programmable signal generator. |
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Monday |
No Lecture: Project
work on the Key Board |
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Monday Afternoon |
No Lecture: Project
work on the Key Board |
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Thursday |
Timers/Counters and Interrupts on Atmega103 Lecture 10
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An
introduction to interrupts counters and timers on the Atmega103. An example
program which Uses the
Timer0 to cause interrupts is downloaded from the course web site. |
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Friday |
Digital to Analog Converters and Operational Amplifiers Lecture 9
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The theory
of Operational Amplifiers
and Digital to Analog
converters is reviewed. The students Make an DAC
controlled from the Atmega103. They Will use
this later for their Project. |