	Department of Computer Science Course: CS 4723

CS 4723 - Introduction to Microprocessors

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Evaluation:

Final Exam	35%
Midterm Exam	15%
Labs	15% (7 labs)	attendance is compulsory
Project	35%	including proposal, presentation, and documentation

Labs are to be handed in at the end of the laboratory timeslot. Failure of the lab component will result in a failing grade (F) for the course.

The project includes an initial presentation of the project proposal, with a brief write-up, a final project presentation, and a project write-up.

None.

Basic architecture of the ATMEL processors (1 week)
- instruction set architecture
- memory and I/O
- general organization of on-chip I/O devices
Assembly language programming (1 week)
- addressing, operations
- timing considerations
- the parallel port
Review of C (1 week)
- basic control structures
- simple code management (makefiles)
- interfacing between C and assembler
On-chip components (1 week)
- ports, timers
- interrupts, interrupt programming, sleep modes
Serial peripherals (1 week)
- serial communication --- SPI, IIC
- bit-level protocols
Basic circuits (1 week)
- Ohm's law, capacitance, RC circuits
- Kirchoff's law, simple circuit analysis
- transistors as switches
Analog/digital control (1 week)
- ADC, DAC
- PWM controllers
Electronics (1 week)
- Op-amps
- Linear devices
Applications (4 weeks)
- Power applications - e.g., motor control
- low power applications - battery operation
- sensors

An earlier edition was used as text for a previous offering of this course:

Programming and Customizing the AVR Microcontroller, by D. V. Gadre, McGraw Hill (2001)
ISBN 0-07-134666-X

Embedded C Programming and the Atmel AVR, 2e, by R. Barnett, S. Cox and L. O'Cull Thompson-Delmar (2007)
ISBN 1401803959