ECE 3724/CS 3124 Lab Schedule, Fall 2003

All labs meet in Room 329, Simrall.

Non-PIC Microcontroller Assignments

Experiments marked with '***' are formal lab reports. These lab reports ask questions concerning a microcontroller other than the PIC. The purpose of this is to illustrate that there are many different microcontrollers available, and to provide you with an opportunity to compare one of these with the PIC.

Use the following list to determine which micrcontroller you are assigned. You must visit the company website, and download the appropriate datasheet for your assigned microcontroller .

• If the last digit of your student ID is 0 or 1, use the Intel 80C51FA ( Intel Embedded WWW site )
• If the last digit of your student ID is 2 or 3, use the Atmel ATmega128L ( Atmel Microcontroller WWW site )
• If the last digit of your student ID is 4 or 5, use the Motorola 68HC812 ( Motorola Semiconductor WWW site )
• If the last digit of your student ID is 6 or 7, use the Zilog Z8F160 ( Zilog WWW site )
• If the last digit of your student ID is 8 or 9, use the Cypress Microsystems PSOC CY8C26XXX ( Cypress Microsystems WWW site )

Lab Schedule

• Aug 20th : Classes begin, no labs. However, you are responsible for reviewing Altera MAXPLUS operation as it is used in the first lab.

• Aug 25: Experiment 1: Student ID CPU, requires Altera Maxplus

• Sept 1: Experiment 2: PIC Simulation in Maxplus, Introduction to MPLAB. Monday is a holiday, Monday lab students are expected to attend some other lab section (just bring your laptop to lab).

• Sept 8: Experiment 3 PIC Assembly Language Programming #1, get an early start on this lab by working on the programming assignment before coming to lab.

• Sept 15: Experiment 4 PIC Assembly Language Programming #2, get an early start on this lab by working on the programming assignment before coming to lab. Purchase your parts kit (and extra protoboard if needed) by this date as you will need them in two weeks.

• Sept 22 ***: Experiment 5 PIC Assembly Language Programming #3, get an early start on this lab by working on the programming assignment before coming to lab.

• Sept 29: Experiment 6 PIC Startup, you must have your protoboard wired as per the prelab requirements before entering lab in order to get prelab credit.

• Oct 6: Experiment 7, Serial vs Parallel IO.

• Oct 13: Experiment 8, Interrupt Driven IO.

• Oct 20: Experiment 9, Introduction to the I2C bus via a serial 64K x 8 EEPROM.

• Oct 27 ***: Experiment 10, Data conversion using the PIC on-chip A/D, external I2C DAC

• Nov 3: Experiment 11, Use the timer system to generate square waves, sine wave, and arbitrary waveforms.

• Nov 10: Experiment 12, Use the timer capture system for pulse width measurement of IR detector waveforms.

• Nov 17: Experiment 13, Audio Signal Sampling/Playback

• Nov 24 : Fall Holiday/Thanksgiving

• Dec 1: last week of classes, In-lab exam