ECE 340 Syllabus – Spring Semester 2013

• Credits:              3 cr.
• Time:                  Lectures:  8:30 – 9:20 MWF   –  BEL 205
•                             Labs – BEL 215, Hours: Normal building hours
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•  Text:                  Programming 32-bit Microcontrollers in C - Exploring the PIC32,
•                             Lucio Di Jasio,  ISBN 978-0-7506-8709-6
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• Prereqs.             ECE 240-241 or Instructor Permission
•                             CS112, CS 120 or equivalent knowledge of C
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• Instructor:        Richard Wall GJL 203, rwall@uidaho.edu
• Office Hours:   10:30 - 11:20am MWF
• Course WEB site: http://ece.uidaho.edu/ee/classes/ECE340
• Student access information:   UI Disability Assistance

Grading:

• Grades are assigned based upon the following scale:

1.     A – 90 to 100%

2.     B – 80  to 89%

3.     C – 70  to 79%

4.     D – 60 to 69%

5.     F – below 60%

• Homework and Quizzes         20% 
• Midterm (3)                            20% 
• Final Exam / Project:             20%
• Standards for assignments

1.     Homework is due at the start of the class of the date assigned. Late assignments will not be accepted and students will receive zero credit for that assignment.

2.     Missed assignments because of sickness can only be made up if accompanied with a note from student health services or a medical doctor.

3.     University sponsored field trips and university athletes required to submit event activity notices prior to the class that is missed. Homework assignment dates missed for these events must be submitted prior to the missed class.

4.  Assignments submitted are to be the work of each individual student. All Students who participate in plagiarism will receive zero credit for the assignment. Acts of plagiarism will be promptly report to the dean of students. Refer to the Students Code of Conduct at http://www.uidaho.edu/DOS/judicialaffairs/studentcodeofconduct.

Course Topics:

1.     C Programming

A.     Elements of C programming

    i. Program organization

    ii. Creating variables

        a. Auto versus static

        b. Global versus local

B.    Best practices.

    i.     Comments and documentation

    ii.     Magic numbers and constants

    i.  Design partitioning

    ii. Software Modeling

        a. Data flow diagrams

        b. control flow diagrams

        c. Finite State Machine (FMS) diagrams

       

2.     Integrated Development Design (MPLAB)

A.     Code Generation – context editors

B.    Code Instrumentation

    i.      Variable observation (local / watch windows)

    ii.     Code execution control (single stepping / break points)

C.     Hardware Instrumentation

    i.     The power of the LED   

    ii.    Voltmeters (DVM with frequency counters)

    iii.   Oscilloscopes (screen capture)

    iv.   Logic Analyzers

D.      Code Analysis

    i.     Execution timing

    ii.    Memory utilization 

 

3.     Microprocessor Resource Management

A.     Input / Output (I/O) - controlling bits

    i.   One hot code and value representation

    ii.  IO control and pin drive/loading characteristics

    iii. Finite state machine implementation

        a. "if-else" structures

        b. "switch-case" structures

B.      Timers and clocks

    i. Configuration

        a. Timer source clock

        b. Prescale registers

        c. Period register

    ii. Reading Timer

        a. Timer count values

        b. Timer flags

C.    Interrupts

    i. Priority schemes - nested, non nested and hybrid

    ii. Single vector implementation

    iii.  Multi vector implementation

D.    Handshaking

    ii. Explicate (hardware / software) based control

    ii. Implicate (timing ) based control

E.      Serial I/O - handshaking

    i.   Networking fundamentals

    ii.     Asynchronous

        a. Signal characteristics

        b. ASCII protocol

    iii. Synchronous

                                                        a.            I²C

                       b.    SPI

F.      Capture and Compare

    i.  Pulse Width Modulation (PWM)  - Timer compare

    ii  Event Timing / Frequency measurement

        b. Time Capture - Pulse counting - speed sensing (tachometer)

4.     Microprocessor Sensor Electronics

        A. Fundamental Electronic Components

            i.  Op Amp

            ii. Voltage Comparator

            ii. R2R Ladder networks

        B.  Digital to Analog Conversion (DAC)

            i.  Single slope and dual slope conversion

            ii.  Delta-sigma converters

            iii.  Flash ADC