Cornell University
ECE 4760
Designing with Microcontrollers
--- Fall 2018 ---
Updated 6/29/18

Assignments   Homework | Lab exercises | Reading | Policy

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 Assignments

• 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.

Piazza

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

Reading Assignments

All semester:

• POLICY PAGE: This is the implicit contract you are agreeing to by taking the course!
• Tektronix TDS1002 oscilloscope manual
• B&K 4040a signal generator manual
• --- PIC32 specific manuals ------------ -------------------------------------------------
• PIC32 hardware manual sections (local copy of Full Manual -- HUGE)
  
• PIC32 Peripheral Libraries for MPLAB C32 Compiler (local copy)
• PIC32MX2xx datasheet -- Errata
• MPLABX IDE users guide
  
  
• --- PIC32MX250 full pinout and signals -------------------------------------------------
  
• My slightly simplified version, organized so that humans can read it.
  Click image for signal name definitions.
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• Signal Names==>Pins: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 PDIP highlighted in green
  (for PPS see next tables)
• Peripheral Pin Select (PPS) input table
  --example: UART receive pin --- specify: PPS group, signal, logical pin name
  --PPSInput(2, U2RX, RPB11); //Assign U2RX to pin RPB11 -- Physical pin 22 on 28 PDIP
  Note that the groups (1 to 4) are delimited by horzontal lines in the righthand column of the table.
• Peripheral Pin Select (PPS) output table
  --example: UART transmit pin --- specify: PPS group, logical pin name, signal
  --PPSOutput(4, RPB10, U2TX); //Assign U2TX to pin RPB10 -- Physical pin 21 on 28 PDIP
  Note that the groups (1 to 4) are delimited by horzontal lines in the righthand column of the table.
• PIC32MX250 configuration options Nota bene!
  • JTAG enable overrides pins 13, 14, and 15
  • Primary oscillator enable overrides pins 9 and 10
  • Secondary oscillator enable overrudes pins 11 and 12
  • There are silicon errors in I2C implementation that affect other i/o pins and other functions.
    READ the errata RA0 and RA1 and RB5 and RB6 may be affected.
  Further Simplified PIC32MX250 pinout (many lesser used signals are not included)
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  MicrostickII pinout

Lab 1:

• Reference Manual sections 12, 14, 15
• PIC32 Peripheral Libraries for MPLAB C32 Compiler sections 10, 11, 12
• Getting started with PIC32
• Class Overview and Policy
• Notes on ESD How to avoid killing chips (Microchip)

Lab 2:

• Reference Manual sections 23
• PIC32 Peripheral Libraries for MPLAB C32 Compiler sections 14
• Browse the help in MPLABX to investigate xc32 Peripherial Libraries and Standard Libraries

Lab 3:

• Reference Manual sections 17, 20, 31
• PIC32 Peripheral Libraries for MPLAB C32 Compiler sections 18, 19, 3

Lab 4:

• Reference Manual sections 21
• PIC32 Peripheral Libraries for MPLAB C32 Compiler sections 16

Project:

• Synthetic Serendipity (IEEE Spectrum, Volume: 41, Issue: 7, Year: July 2004) Off-campus link
• The Ariane 5 explosion

• Patriot Missile Failure
• An Investigation of the Therac-25 Accidents
• Therac-25 (MIT)

• IEEE code of ethics
• Ethical Issues in Empirical Studies of Software Engineering
• Student projects plagiarized