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ECE 4760 deals with microcontrollers as components in electronic design and embedded control. The course is taught by Hunter Adams, who is a staff member in Electrical and Computer Engineering. The course is currently taught using PIC32MX processors.

Final Projects | Assignments | Staff/Schedule | Links | Lectures s2021, f2017

Assignments Lab exercises | Reading | Policy

Homework and Final Project Proposal

1. Bird call synthesis Homework
2. Boids Homework
3. Helicopter Homework
4. Final project proposal

Lab Exercises

1. Bird Song Synthesizer -- Week 1 Aug30 -- Week 2 Sept 6 -- Week 3 Sept 13
2. Boids! -- Week 1 Sept 20 -- Week 2 Sept 27 -- Week 3 Oct 4
3. 1-DOF helicopter -- Week 1 Oct 11 -- Week 2 Oct 18 -- Week 3 Oct 23
4. Design project --- Demo Dec 8 to 10---Report due on date specified by Cornell

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

Reading

POLICY PAGE: This is the implicit contract you are agreeing to by taking the course!
Picoscope Software users guide

--- PIC32 specific manuals ------------ -------------------------------------------------
PIC32 hardware manual sections (local copy of Full Manual -- HUGE)
PIC32 Peripheral Libraries for MPLAB C32 Compiler (local copy)
PIC32MX2xx datasheet -- Datasheet errors! Errata
MPLABX IDE users guide
PIC32 I/O pin and Configuration bit details
Specific header p32mx250f128b.h for info only. The complier includes this for you
PIC32MX1XX/2XX Interrupt Table 1, 2
PIC32 interrupt IRQ names and vector names int_1xx_2xx.h for info only. The complier includes this for you
--- ProtoThreads and Sean Caroll's Big board (SECABB) --------------------------------
ProtoThreads on PIC32: background and current version
Development Board page (including example codes for ProtoThreads 1.3.2)

General:

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

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.
Old PIC32 home page (Fall 2019)

Schedule and Staff Schedule | Staff

Lecture: MWF 12:25pm - 1:15pm in Phillips 101

Lab Sections (238 Phillips):

Day	Time	TAs
Wednesday	1330-1630	Raquel
Wednesday	1930-2230	Cameron
Thursday	1330-1630	Jack
Friday	1330-1630	Andrew

Hunter Adams 208 Phillips Hall (Faculty Directory)
TAs:
Jack Defay: jad452
Cameron Haire: cdh99
Raquel Taborga: rmt229
Andrew Tsai: aht53
Retired instructor: Bruce Land, 214 Phillips Hall

Links Cornell | C-language | History

PIC32 Staff Maintained
- Final Projects and Ideas for Microcontroller projects
- Lab supporting docs
  - ProtoThreads on PIC32
  - PIC32 Development boards
  - Remote Access interfaces for remote teaching spring 2021 (Day Zero lab s2021)
  - TFT LCD display
  - Keypad
  - Port Expander
  - Fixed Point Arithmetic systems
  - PLIB, GCC and assembler considerations
- PIC32MX250 peripherials
  - Direct Memory Access (DMA) event table, block diagram (DMA weird machine)
  - Input/output ports (I/O)
  - Comparator
  - Time ( timers, input capture, output compare, oscillators, RTCC)
  - Serial Peripheral Interface (SPI)
  - Inter-Integrated Circuit (I2C)
  - Serial using UART (UART)
  - Analog to Digital Converter (ADC)
  - Charge Time Measurement Unit (CTMU)
  - Real Time Clock (RTCC)
  - Vref as a digital-to-analog converter (CVREF)
  - Power Managment
  - Interrupts on PIC32
- Interfaces
  - Digital to Analog techniques
- Applications
  - PID controller introduction
  - PID conttroller analytical analysis
  - Direct Digital Synthesis
  - Digital Signal Processing
  - Sound Synthesis
  - Neural modeling
  - Random Number Generation
  - Pixel Strip Displays
  - DMA weird machine
  - NTSC video generation
- Software
  - Interpreters
- --------------------------------------
- PIC32 experiments
- DMA event table
- DMA block diagram
- -- PIC32 Student written --
- USB mass store for PIC32 -- Douglas Katz, Fred Kummer
  NRF24L01 library for PIC32 -- Douglas Katz, Fred Kummer
  Tahmid's Blog -- Syed Tahmid Mahbub
  Port Expander (ZIP code) -- Sean Carroll
  Small target board assembly -- Sean Carroll
  Large target board assembly -- Sean Carroll
- TFT, USB, Ethernet, Dev Boards -- Alex Whiteway
- PIC32 pinout email am859@cornell.edu for corrections
- USB -- Qinrong Yu
- WiFi using ESP8266 -- Mikhail Rudinskiy
- Development board -- Michael David Ross
- -- IP concerns --
- Plagiarized 4760 projects (2011)
- Plagerized 4760 projects (2015)
C compiler information

PIC32 standalone information
- PICKIT3 and PIC32
- PICKIT3 and PIC32
- PICKIT3 users manual
- Tahmid's dev setup -- Tahmid's blog
- MCP1702 3.3 volt LDO regulator (MCP1702-3302E)
- USB
  - USB HID Class on an Embedded Device AN1163
  - M-stack USB stack
Computer history
- Computer History Muesum
- Computer history at Cornell
- Relay Computer
- Digi-Comp I toy state machine 1963 (current vendor) images,
- Turing Train Terminal
- Wireworld computer, wireworld, wireworld
- Lego Turing Machine (details)
- Eniac Museum, Eniac story, Technical Report, ENIAC was announced on Feb 14, 1946
- Manchester Mark 1 1948
- Ferranti Mark 1 1951 --First commerically available computer
- IBM 650 1953 --First computer in ECE
- Bendix G-15 and computer museum 1958 --First computer I used (Bruce)
- IBM 1620 1959 --The only computer at my college in 1964
- IBM System/360 --The main computer at Cornell in 1968
- IBM 1800 --The first "embedded" computer I used 1969 at Cornell
- DEC GT-40 -- The first "lab" computer I used in 1975 at Cornell
- RP2040: (hardware manual)
  - C SDK by Van Hunter Adams (C-SDK manual)
  - -- protothreads
  - -- protothreads with 16 color 640x480 VGA
  - -- fixed point
  - -- Lattice-Boltzmann fluid simulation
  - Micropython (manual)
  - MBED in Arduino (MBED manual)(Arduino site)

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