Microprocessor Systems II & Embedded Systems

Credits: 3

Contact Hours: 3 hours of lecture

Instructor: Seung Woo Son

Textbook:

• Required: Reese, Bruce, Jones, “Microcontrollers – From Assembly Language to C Using the PIC24 Family”, Course Technology/Cengage Learning, 2009.
• Optional: Stephen G. Kochan, “Programming in C”, 4th Ed, Addison-Wesley, 2015.

Other supplemental materials: All supplemental materials can be found on the UMass Lowell Blackboard portal (https://www.uml.edu/blackboard/). These materials include lecture slides, handouts, recordings, assignments, quizzes, and other documentation.

Course Catalog Description:

This three-credit course provides a continuation of the study of microprocessors begun in EECE.3170 (Microprocessors Systems Designs I). Topics include CPU architecture, memory interfaces and management, coprocessor interfaces, bus concepts, bus arbitration techniques, serial I/O devices, DMA and interrupt-controlled devices. Focus will be placed on the design, construction, and testing of dedicated microprocessor systems (static and real-time). Hardware limitations of the single-chip system will be investigated along with microcontrollers, programming for small systems, interfacing, and communications, validating hardware and software, microprogramming of controller chips, and design methods and testing of embedded systems. Laboratories are directly related to microprocessor functions and embedded system designs.

Prerequisites: EECE.3110 (Electronics I Laboratory), EECE.3170 (Microprocessors I), EECE.3650 (Electronics I)

Grading: Lab assignments (30%), 2 Exams (20% each), Course project (30%)

Required or elective? This course is required for Computer Engineering majors while Electrical Engineers may use it as a technical elective.

Course Outcomes:

By the end of this course, students will understand and be able to use all of the following:

1. Gain an understanding of embedded systems design
2. Become capable of evaluating and implementing memory system organization
3. Decoding and timing
4. Understand different communication protocols and interfaces
5. Become capable of implementing different memory system architectures
6. Understand the interaction of hardware and software in embedded systems
7. Understand emerging embedded system design technologies
8. Develop and understand embedded software for different processor architectures

Course Topics

• Introduction to embedded system design; lab tutorial; PIC microcontroller and IDE
• ADC, Data Acquisition and Control
• PIC24 pin out; C programming
• Interrupts, timers, interrupted-driven IO
• Asynchronous or synchronous IO (UART, I2C, SPI)
• Pulse width modulation and DC motor control
• Advanced topics