Week 6

Monday

• Conditional control flow: conditional (textbook section 18.7)
  • switch case
• Watchdog timer (textbook section 14.5, lab 5)

Activity 7: Smart Car I/O Pins

Wednesday

• Lab 5: External Interrupts

Friday

• System clock (textbook chapter 14)
• Timer/counters (textbook chapter 14, lab 6)

Activity 8: I/O Clock Frequency

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Resources

• Class textbook (PDF)
• Class lab manual (PDF)
• ATmega328P datasheet (PDF)

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Topical Outline

• Registers
• Top down software design
• Interrupts and real-time events

Course Objectives Covered

• Apply the principles of top down design to microcontroller software development
• Describe the interfaces for input and output including computer buses, parallel, and serial
• Identify timing issues and events
• Describe different types of memory used in microcontroller systems