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
Homework
- 1. Due at the beginning of lab 1
- 2. Due at the beginning of lab 2
- 3. Due at the beginning of lab 3
- 4. Due at the beginning of lab 4
- 5. Due the last week of lab 3
Lab Assignments
- 1. Construct board and Capacitance meter (weeks of Aug 21, 28, Sept 4)
- 2. Cricket call generator (weeks of Sept 11, 18)
- 3. TFT-LCD video game (weeks of Sept 25, Oct 2, 9)
- 4. Motor controller (weeks of October 16, 23)
- 5. Design project (weeks of Oct 30, Nov 6, 13, 20, Demo week of NOV 27).
See policy page for writeup examples. Possible new labs.
Piazza
AVR Lectures (from Spring 2012) and 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 Reference manual
(click on Documentation->Reference Manual near the bottom of the page) - 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. 
- 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 - 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 - 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
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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
- IEEE code of ethics
- Ethical Issues in Empirical Studies of Software Engineering
- Student projects plagiarized
Schedule and Staff Schedule | Staff
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Lecture: MWF 12:20PM - 01:10PM in Phillips 203
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Lab Sections (238 Phillips--Digital Lab):
DayTimeTATuesday1630-1930Wednesday1630-1930Thursday1330-1630Thursday1630-1930Friday1330-1630
- 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
week2lab2
week1
week2lab3
week1
week2
week3lab4
week1
week2final
project
week1final
project
last weekfinal
project
TBDWork
DueBuild
boardHW1 demo
lab1HW2
&
lab1 reportdemo lab2 HW3
&
lab2 reportlab3
check-
pointdemo lab3
&
HW5HW4
&
lab3 reportdemo lab4 lab4 report demo
projectwebpage
due -
Office Hours (in lab):
DayTimeStaffMonday0900-1300, 1630-1930Tuesday0900-1300, 1930-2130Wednesday1330-1630BruceThursday1330-1630, 1930-2130BruceFriday1330-1630BruceSaturdaySunday
- Bruce Land, 214 Phillips Hall , BRL4@cornell.edu
- TAs:
- Filipek, Matt mjf332
Lee, Moonyoung (Mark) ml634
Mahbub, Tahmid sm893
Palmer, Andrew ajp294
Yan, Sophia sjy33
- Grader: none
Links Cornell | C-language | History
- Cornell
PIC32 Staff Maintained
- Final Projects and Ideas for Microcontroller projects
- Lab supporting docs
- ProtoThreads on PIC32 (and timers)
- PIC32 target boards
- TFT display and Keypad using Protothreads
- Fixed Point Arithmetic systems
- PIC32MX250 peripherials
- Direct Memory Access (DMA) event table, block diagram
- Serial Peripheral Interface (SPI)
- Inter-Integrated Circuit™ (I2C™)
- Analog to Digital Converter (ADC)
- Charge Time Measurement Unit (CTMU)
- Real Time Clock (RTCC)
- Power Managment
- Interfaces
- Applications
- Software
- --------------------------------------
- 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
- Minimal PIC32 circuit
- 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 in ECE
- 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
- 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 1972 at Cornell
Page Stats
YouTube statistics (from YouTube analytics). Includes 4760, 5760 and MEng projects.
Year |
Video views |
Minutes Viewed |
Subscribers added |
|---|---|---|---|
2012 |
203,000 |
~1,000,000 |
1390 |
2013 |
304,490 |
1,144,343 |
3045 |
2014 |
374,600 |
1,318,000 |
3312 |
2015 |
440,100 |
1,450,000 |
2976 |
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.
