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ECE 4760 deals with microcontrollers as components in electronic design and embedded control. The course is taught by Bruce Land, who is a staff member in Electrical and Computer Engineering. The course is taught using PIC32 processors.
Before 2015 we used Atmel ATmega.

Final Projects | Assignments | Staff and Schedule | Links | Lectures

Assignments   Homework | Lab exercises | Reading | Policy | Piazza

Homework

  • 1. Due Sunday 8/26 at 2359
  • 2. Due Sunday 9/9 at 2359
  • 3. Due Sunday 9/23 at 2359
  • 4. Due Sunday 10/14 at 2359
  • 5. Due the night before your lab section at 2359 the week of 10/8

Lab Exercises

  • 1. Construct board and Capacitance meter (weeks of Aug 24, 27, Sept 3)
  • 2. DTMF dialer (weeks of Sept 10, 17)
  • 3. TFT-LCD video game (weeks of Sept 24, Oct 1, 8)
  • 4. 1 DOF helicopter controller (weeks of October 15, 22)
  • 5. Design project (weeks of Oct 29, Nov 5, 12, 19, Demo week of NOV 26).

--See policy page for writeup examples. Possible new labs.

Reading

All semester:

Lab 1:

Lab 2:

Lab 3:

Lab 4:

General:

youtube PIC32 Lectures (from Fall 2015, 2016, 2017) and PIC32 projects
youtube AVR Lectures (from Spring 2012) and AVR final projects. (hackaday, hackedgadgets)
Old AVR-based home page (Fall 2014), Old Homework, Old Lab exercises.

Schedule and Staff    Schedule | Staff

  • Lecture: MWF 12:20PM - 01:10PM in Phillips 203
  • Lab Sections (238 Phillips--Digital Lab):
    Day
    Time
    TA
    Tuesday
    1630-1930
    --
    Wednesday
    1630-1930
    --
    Thursday
    1330-1630
    --
    Thursday
    1630-1930
    --
    Friday
    1330-1630
    --
  • Homework and lab reports are due within 5 minutes of the beginning of lab on the day specified below.
    Demo by the end of the lab on the day specified below, or before.
  • Lab:
    Week:    		 lab 1
    week0
    week1
    week2    		 lab2
    week1
    week2    		 lab3
    week1
    week2
    week3    		 lab4
    week1
    week2    		 final
    project
    week1    		 final
    project
    last week    		 final
    project
    TBD
    Work
    Due    		 Build
    board    		 HW1 demo
    lab1    		 HW2
    &
    lab1 report
    		 demo lab2 HW3
    &
    lab2 report    		 lab3
    check-
    point
    		 demo lab3
    &
    HW5    		 HW4
    &
    lab3 report    		 demo lab4 lab4 report demo
    project    		 webpage
    due

  • Office Hours (in lab):
    Day
    Time
    Staff
    Monday
    0900-1200, 1630-1930
    Bruce
    Tuesday
    0900-1300, 1930-2230
    Bruce
    Wednesday
    0900-1630
    Thursday
    1330-1630
    Bruce
    Friday
    1330-1630
    Bruce
    Saturday
    Sunday
     
  • Bruce Land, 214 Phillips Hall , BRL4@cornell.edu
  • TAs:
  • Aasta Gandhi -- apg67@cornell.edu
  • Ryan Hornung -- rmh286@cornell.edu
  • Vidya Ramesh -- vr236@cornell.edu
  • Nick Sarkis -- nas256@cornell.edu
  • Erika Yu -- ejy25@cornell.edu

  • Grader: none

Links  Cornell | C-language | History

Page Stats


YouTube statistics (from YouTube analytics). Includes 4760, 5760 and MEng projects.
As of July 2018:
Total video views 6,800,000.
Total minutes watched 12,800,000.
Total Subscribers 30,100.

Comparison of pages views for 2008 and 2009 shows the striking repeatability of student access. The class size was the same (100+/-2) each semester. Note peaks on Monday and Wednesday (heavy lab days), the drop during spring break, and small drops on the second week of two week long labs. During April, the weekly pattern breaks down because the students are working on final projects. I don't know what causes the large fluctuations during this time.

Eval summary

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