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Date |
Topic, Reading, and Assignment |
| 1 |
Aug 30 |
Introduction
Discuss
Syllabus
Read Chapter 1
Homework # 1 assigned.
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2 |
Sep 1 |
CPU Registers, machine code, source code, assembly vs higher level language
We covered through Section 1.5
Look at textbook problems E1.1-1.9 and
Read section 1.6 again prior to Wednesday's lecture
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Sep 4 |
No Class, Labor Day
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3 |
Sep 6 |
Addressing Modes Section 1.6
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4 |
Sep 8 |
Sample instructions, hand assembly, program tracing
Through Section 1.8.1
Homework # 2 assigned.
Due on Monday, Sep 11
Don't forget about the
IEEE picnic this evening
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| 5 |
Sep 11 |
Arithmetic, multiple precision addition and subtraction
Read chapter 2 through section 2.6 (except 2.6.5 and FDIV)
through the bottom of page 59
(skip top of page 60 to start of 2.7
re-read example 2.10
Homework # 3 assigned. Portions
due tonight and before lab on Thursday.
Homework # 2 due before class
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6 |
Sep 13 |
Double precision multiplication, Sim68 demo and discussion, relative
addressing and the BRA instruction
Homework # 4 assigned.
due on Monday
Note submission instructions!
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7 |
Sep 15 |
Lenghty C discussion, Flow Charts
Branching,
conditional branching (based on the CCR)
Sections 1.6.6 and 2.7-2.9
Get started on Homework 4
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8 |
Sep 18 |
Cycle-by-cycle analysis,
Dis-assembly using opcode maps,
Sections 1.8.2-1.9, 2.0-2.4
(plus some bonus material not found in your textbook)
Homework 4 due today
In order to participate, you should
bring your textbook to class today
Homework # 5 assigned.
Due on Friday
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9 |
Sep 20 |
Finish with shift and rotate instructions. Delay loops.
Sections 1.6.6 and 2.7-2.9
Introduce the stack, and the push and pull operations.
Begin to discuss modular programming, subroutines, storage of the
return address, and parameter passing.
Chapter 3 through 3.3
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10 |
Sep 22 |
Subroutine calls, parameter passing,
reentrant and recursive subroutines, examples,
"Well behaved" subroutines. Sim68 demo/discussion
Homework #6 assigned, due Wednesday.
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11 |
Sep 25 |
Finish with reentrant and recursive subroutines.
Begin to discuss interrupts (maskability, priority, "stacking registers")
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12 |
Sep 27 |
Finish with Chapter 6: Interrupts and Resets
(Buffalo Monitor JMP table, local and global
enables and masks, various types of interrupts).
Homework #7 assigned, due Friday.
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13 |
Sep 29 |
Finish with interrupts (Chapter 6). Discuss lab.
Homework # 8 assigned, Due, via email, before
lab on Thursday.
Note that the calling program will have to use JSR rather than BSR
due to the memory locations that I specified.
Also see the
Calling program (snippet) for Homework # 8
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14 |
Oct 2 |
Parallel I/O: Brute Force, Strobed, and handshaking. general discussion
(Read sections 7.4-7.7 and skim 7.7-7.11 for project hints)
Homeworks 9 and 10 due
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Oct 2 |
Optional Evening Review Session at 5:00 pm, in CEH 351. Please be
on time, since I have to leave by 6:45.
Please bring questions, this is not a lecture
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15 |
Oct 4 |
Exam # 1
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16 |
Oct 6 |
Memory Decoding Section 5.6.2
Homework # 9 assigned for Wednesday
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Oct 9 |
No Class -- Native American Day
Do not forget about the Sencore Symposium on Tuesday. The bus will leave
from the area north of Crothers at 8 am. We should be back before 4 pm.
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17 |
Oct 11 |
Parallel I/O on the MC68HC11
Prior to class you
should read sections 7.4-7.7 and skim 7.7-7.11 for project ideas
Homework # 9 Due
Read 7.12 for next time
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18 |
Oct 13 |
Output handshaking, Centronics printer example. Section 7.12
Homework # 10 assigned for Wednesday.
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19 |
Oct 16 |
Discuss the built in
analog-to-digital (A2D) subsystem,
(Chapter 11, skim through 11.4, read
11.5-11.9, and browse 11.10-11.12 for project hints and ideas.)
Homework # 11 assigned for Friday.
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20 |
Oct 18 |
Finish with example of using built in analog-to-digital (A2D) subsystem,
(example 11.7 on page 539),
Discuss using 68HC11 on printer side of printer interface
(finish Setion 7.12 now that you've had a chance to look at the
other side for homework), and
Discuss the Pulse Accumulator subsystem (Section 8.10--we will discuss
the rest of Chapter 8 and all of the other various timer subsystems in
about a week).
Homework 10 Due
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21 |
Oct 20 |
Discuss on chip EEPROM. This is not covered in your textbook and there
is no reading assignment prior to class.
Homework # 12 assigned for Monday.
Homework 11 due
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22 |
Oct 23 |
Meet in Lab (HH 319). Half of us at 2 pm, the rest at 3 pm.
Bring a soft copy of your solution to Homework 12
We'll start with this program, before
implementing Homework 12.
Homework 12 due by email prior to class
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23 |
Oct 25 |
Meet in Lab (HH 319). Half of us at 2 pm, the rest at 3 pm.
Bring a soft copy of your (possibly revised after Monday)
solution to Homework 12
If you made a revision to Homework 12, email it (using our standard procedure
and naming convention -- call it hw13) prior to class
If your EEPROM program from Monday is not yet working, you need to
demo it at the very beginning of class so as to not lose all of the
participation/quiz points for Monday. You need to have the "second meter"
working to get today's points.
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24 |
Oct 27 |
Everybody Meet in Crothers 351 at 2:00
to discuss the timer subsystems. This lecture will cover most of Chapter 8.
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25 |
Oct 30 |
Everybody Meet in Crothers 351 at 2:00
to finish up the timer subsystems (Chapter 8) and begin talking about
asynchronous serial communication (Chapter 9-9.3).
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26 |
Nov 1 |
Asynchronous Serial Communication.
Baud-rate mismatch homework asigned (from the board)
Due Friday
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27 |
Nov 3 |
Asynchronous Serial Communication -- Specifics of the 68HC11
Baud-rate mismatch homework due
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28 |
Nov 6
|
More on SCI subsystem. Administrative stuff with lab practicals.
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Nov 6 |
Optional evening review session in CEH 351. 7-9 pm
As usual, you should bring questions as I do not intend to
lecture.
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29 |
Nov 8 |
Exam II
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Nov 10 |
No Class -- Veteran's Day (Observed)
|
30 |
Nov 13 |
Discuss Exam.
Homework # 15 and
Homework # 16 and assigned for
Wednesday.
Last Day to Withdraw from classes
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31 |
Nov 15 |
Discuss Lab practical, go over Homework 16
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32 |
Nov 17 |
In class PAI exercise became HW 17 (due Monday)
|
33 |
Nov 20 |
Discuss PAI assignment (HW 17),
discuss SPI subsystem -- Chapter 10-10.5
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34 |
Nov 22 |
Discuss Timing and interfacing memory to MCU (Section 5.7)
Homework # 18 and
Homework # 19 and assigned for Monday
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Nov 24 |
No class -- day after Thanksgiving
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35 |
Nov 27 |
Meet in Lab (HH 319). Half of us at 2 pm, the rest at 3 pm.
Same Groups as last time
Bring a soft copy of your solution to Homework 18
Homework 18 due by email prior to class
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36 |
Nov 29 |
Meet in CEH 351 to discuss timing.
Looked at
68HC11 Bus timing
along with the memory timing, and
discussed write cycle timing (sorry, no PPT for that one).
Homework # 20 assigned for Friday
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37 |
Dec 1 |
Work timing problems
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38 |
Dec 4 |
Which Micro? Selecting the right microcontroller for the job
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39 |
Dec 6 |
Current and Future trends in Microcontrollers. How Flash based micro help with
time to market and decrease costs, system on a chip. This material is not in
your book, but a quick google-search yielded the following three articles which
seem to cover the current trends:
Memory options: flash may dominate from EDN (in general, EDN is
an excellent resource)
A piece on
the evolution of flash microcontrollers, and
a wikipedia article on
System on a Chip
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40 |
Dec 8
|
Final project report due
If you do not have it ready by class time, you must make an appointment to
put it in
my hands sometime on Friday
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Monday
Dec 11
|
Optional Review Session at 4 pm in
Crothers 351.
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Dec 13 |
Final exam -- 2 pm -- Crothers 351 (Wednesday, December 13)
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