Week 13

Monday

• Input capture unit (textbook section 14.7, lab 12)

Wednesday

• Lab 11: Transmitting & Receiving a Secret Message

Friday

• Open lab¹

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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
• Serial input/output

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

1. It’s possible I may start teaching assembly during this lecture. Refer to week 14 notes for the outline. ↩