ECE306 Notes

Notes #	Topic	Key Concepts	Reading	Source Code
1	Introduction to Embedded Systems and Microcontroller-based Circuit Design	Overview, class policies, basic hardware design	Beware of Programmers Carrying Screwdrivers, Jack Ganssle The Two Percent Solution, Jim Turley The Death of ASICs Jim Turley
2	M16C Instruction Set Architecture	ISA, register set, addressing modes, operations	MDS pp. 1-26, 170-180 MSM pp. 1-32
3	C Programming Review and Dissection I	Variables (local, global), memory sections, control structures, call stacks	P&P Ch. 11, 12, 13 MCPM Ch. 1, 2.1
4	C Programming Review and Dissection II	Functions, arguments, return values, arrays	P&P Ch. 14, 16
5	C Programming Review and Dissection III	Pointers, strings, formatted output	P&P Ch. 18, 19
6	C Programming Review and Dissection IV	Dynamic memory management and linked lists
7	C Start-Up Module and Simple Digital I/O	Start-up module, configuring digital I/O ports, reading and writing them, accessing unions, structures and bitfields in C	- MCPM Ch. 2 - MDS pp. 43-62 - P&P 8.1 and 8.5
8	Analog to Digital Conversion	Analog to digital conversion	Analog to Digital Converters, Stuart Ball - ECE 200 Material on Sampling and Reconstruction - Introduction to Sound Recording, Geoff Martin - MDS pp. 90-98	convert_temp.c, convert_temp.h, main_convert_temp.c, lab5_ADC_example.c
9	Disciplined Software Development	Writing algorithms and code and tests
10	Interrupts and Using them in C	Interrupt concepts and behavior and how to program with them in C	- Introduction to Interrupts, Russell Massey - Interrupt Latency, Jack Ganssle -MDS pp. 37-56, 73-74 - Introduction to Interrupt Debugging, Stuart Ball - MCPM pp. 112-117
11	Serial Communications	Serial communications basics, polled serial communication	- RS232: Fulfilling All Your Communication Needs, Robert Ashby - Quick Reference for RS485, RS422, RS232 and RS423 - Not so quick reference: The RS232 Standard: A Tutorial with Signal Names and Definitions, Christopher E. Strangio	serial_poll_demo.c serial_poll_includes.h
12	Interrupt-Driven Serial Communications and Sharing Data	Serial ISRs, synchronization between ISR and main program	Volatile, Nigel Jones Asynchronicity, Jack Ganssle The Shared-Data Problem (4.3), David Simon (from An Embedded Software Primer, Addison Wesley)	serial_int_demo.c
13	Timers and Event Counters	Examine timers, event counters, PWM, and cascading in the M30262	Pulse-Width Modulation, Michael Barr Introduction to Counter/Timers, Stuart Ball and Michael Barr	SKP timer demo code
14	Round-Robin Non-Preemptive Schedule	Round-robin non-preemptive scheduler	- Reentrancy, Jack Ganssle	see skp26.c and skp26.h
15	Debugging Software and Hardware	Debugging approaches, visibility into embedded systems, getting debug information out, debug tools and features	- P&P Ch. 15 - Twiddle Bits, Michael Gauland, pp. 50-62
16	Software Testing	Aspects of software testability, test case design (white-box and black-box)	- Studs and Duds, Eric Umansky
17	Preemptive Scheduling		Context Switch, David Kalinsky
18	Process Coordination and Scheduling 1	Shared data problem revisited, Synchronization primitives
19	Process Coordination and Scheduling 2	Semaphores and Monitors, NRT and RT Scheduling
20	Memory Expansion and DMA
21	Run-Time Methods for Robustness	Watchdog timers, stack pointer monitoring and brown-out detection	Watchdog Timers, Niall Murphy & Michael Barr Born to Fail, Jack Ganssle	main_wdt.c
Extra	Computer Architecture
xx	Performance Evaluation		Efficient C Code for 8-Bit MCUs, Nigel Jones Fixed-Point Math in C, Joe Lemieux Keys to Writing Efficient Embedded Code, Bill Trudell
xx	Fixed Point and Floating Point Math
xx	Survey of Microcontrollers

MDS	M16C_Hardware_Manual_Rev0.9.pdf	Renesas M30262 Data Sheet
MCPM	M16C_C_Programming_Manual.pdf	Renesas M16C/60 M16C/20 Series C Language Programming Manual
MSM	M16C_Software_Manual.pdf	Renesas M16C/60 M16C/20 Software Manual
P&P		Introduction to Computing Systems, Patt & Patel, 2nd Edition

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