ECE 3724 Lab Schedule, Fall 2006

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 68HC912 ( Motorola Semiconductor WWW site )
• If the last digit of your student ID is 6 or 7, use the Zilog Z8F1622 ( 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 18 Classes start, no labs this week.
• Aug 21: TAs will be in the labs to explain lab policy, and help install lab software (Altera Maxplus, Microchip MPLAB). You are responsible for reviewing Altera MAXPLUS operation as it is used in the first lab. Also, install the serial bootloader, and verify that you can open a terminal window to to yavin.ece (use either putty or ssh) and login. If using a wireless link, then login to leto.ece, and use ssh to login into yavin.ece. Verify that you can edit files seen by yavin.ece by using samba to mount the unixhome directory.

·         Aug 28: Experiment 1, Student ID CPU, requires Altera Maxplus.

·         Sept 4: Experiment 2, Introduction to Microchip MPLAB. Monday is a holiday, so Monday lab students just attend another lab section of your choice. Your lab report is still due the next week at the start of your assigned lab period.

·         Sept 11: 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 18: 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 within two weeks.

·         Sept 25 ***: Experiment 5, PIC Assembly Language Programming #3, get an early start on this lab by working on the programming assignment before coming to lab.

·         Oct 2: No lab, catchup. M/T is a holiday. Get an early start on Lab #6 if you are ahead.

·         Oct 9: 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 16: Experiment 7, Serial vs Parallel IO.

·         Oct 23: Experiment 8, Interrupt Driven IO.

·         Oct 30 Experiment 9, Introduction to the I2C bus via a serial 64K x 8 EEPROM

·         Nov 6: ***: Experiment 10, Data conversion using the PIC on-chip A/D, external I2C DAC

·         Nov 13: Experiment 11, Use the timer system for PWM and DC motor control..

·         Nov 20: Experiment 11, for Mon/Tuesday lab sections (Classes end after Tuesday for Thanksgiving break)

·         Nov 27: Lab Practicum.