Micro I Lecture Schedule – Fall 2003

This schedule is subject to change; all test dates will be announced in class if changed from this schedule.

Aug 20: Week 1

Th: Micro I Intro, Student ID CPU

Aug 25: Week 2

Lab 1: SSN-CPU (Altera Maxplus)

Tu: Number system Review

Th: PIC architecture, Data movement, Bank Addressing MPLAB

Sept 1: Week 3

Lab 2: PIC Simulation in Maxplus

Tu: Arithmetic, Logical instructions, status register, C review

Th: Loops, unsigned comparisons, jumps

Sept 8: Week 4

Lab 3: Assembly Programming #1 (8-bit operations, loops, unsigned comparisons)

Tu: 16-bit operations, Signed comparison

Th: PIC 18 instructions, review for test

Sept 15: Week 5

Lab 4: Assembly Programming #2 (16-bit operations, signed comparisons)

Tu: Test #1

Th: Indirect Addressing, C pointers, PORT B operation, TRISB, subroutines

Sept 22: Week 6

Lab 5: Assembly Programming #3 (Indirect addressing, C compilation)

Tu: Features from other processors such as stacks, other instructions, etc.

Th: PIC pinout, reset sequence, startup register, PIC startup lab coverage (Parallel port usage, switches)

Sept 29: Week 7

Lab 6: PIC startup (parallel port usage, reset sequence)

Oct 1 is last day to drop with 'W' grade.

Tu: RS232 intro

Th: More RS232

Oct 6: Week 8

Lab 7: Serial vs Parallel IO (RS-232 basics)

Tu: Interrupts, interrupt service routines

Th: Circular buffer operation

Oct 13: Week 9

Lab 8: Interrupt Driven IO using RS-232

Tu: SPI port, I2C Bus, Serial EEPROM operation

Th: A/D conversion, test review

Oct 20: Week 10

Lab 9: EEPROM write with Interrupt driven serial IO , I2C bus

Tu: Test #2

Th: A/D, D/A conversion, waveform generation

Oct 27: Week 11

Lab 10: A/D, I2C DAC

Tu: Timer control, Pulse Width Modulation (PWM)

Th: General memory types

Nov 3: Week 12

Lab 11: Timer subsystem, waveform generation

Tu: Time measurement using the PIC

Th: General microprocessor interfacing using parallel busses, memory decoding.

Nov 10: Week 13

Lab 12: Timer subsystem, pulse width measurement

Tu: Special PIC features: watchdog timer, sleep mode, onboard EEPROM

Th: Audio sampling lab review

Nov 17: Week 14

Lab 13: Audio Sampling

Tu: Other serial standards, USB, IEEE Firewire

Th: Test #3

Nov 24: Fall Holiday/Thanksgiving

Dec 1: Week 15

Last week of classes, In-lab exam

Tu: IEEE Floating point

Th: Final exam review