Lecture Schedule

The following is a tentative schedule for the Spring 2023 semester.

Week	Lecture - Tuesday	Lab - Wednesday/Friday	Lecture - Thursday
1 1/9-1/13	Orientation, embedded systems, computer organization [PDF Complete] First Day Survey	Lab 0: Installing the Arduino Toolchain (Linux tutorial, software installation)	Basic circuit analysis (voltage, current, Ohm's law) (Watch this video before coming to class)) [PDF Notes 4up] [PDF Notes 1up] [PDF Complete]
2 1/16-1/20	Transistors, Digital logic, combinational and sequential circuits [PDF Notes 4up] [PDF Notes 1up] [PDF Complete]	Lab 1 - Electronic circuits (exploration of KVL/KCL/Ohm's laws)	Boolean Algebra (Single-variable theorems) Combinational and sequential circuits [PDF Notes 4up] [PDF Notes 1up] [PDF Complete]
3 1/23-1/27	Number systems, binary, hexadecimal, character codes [PDF Notes 4up] [PDF Notes 1up] [PDF Complete]	Lab 2 - Oscilloscopes, combination gate network, delays	Microcontollers 1 (bitwise operations) [PDF Notes 4up] [PDF Notes 1up] [PDF Complete]
4 1/30-2/3	Microcontrollers 2 (digital I/O)	Lab 3: Digital I/O lab with Arduinos	Microcontroller 3 (advanced bit fiddling), State machines [PDF Notes 4up] [PDF Notes 1up] [PDF Complete]
5 2/6-2/10	More State machines LCDs and parallel interfaces [PDF Notes 4up] [PDF Notes 1up] [PDF Complete]	Lab 4: LCDs	Combinational logic design 1 (Minterms/maxterms) [PDF Notes 4up] [PDF Notes 1up] [PDF Complete]
6 2/13-2/17	Combinational logic design 2 (Boolean Algebra, Karnaugh maps) [PDF Notes 4up] [PDF Notes 1up] [PDF Complete]	Lab 5: Analog to Digital Conversion	Combinational logic design 3 (More Karnaugh maps)
2/14	Quiz in the Quiz Section [Quiz Info]
7 2/20-2/24	Combinational logic design 4 (Components: Decoders and Muxes) [PDF Notes 4up] [PDF Notes 1up] [PDF Complete]	Lab 6: Timers [PDF Complete]	Interrupts [Interrupt PDF Notes 4up] [Interrupt PDF Notes 1up] [Interrupt PDF Complete]
	Video Module: Tri-State Gates - Watch on your own time.
8 2/27-3/3	Signed Number Systems [PDF Notes 4up] [PDF Notes 1up] [PDF Complete]	Lab 7 Interrupts [Rotary Encoders PDF Complete]	Adders [PDF Notes 4up] [PDF Notes 1up] [PDF Complete]
9 3/6-3/10	Sequential logic 1 (latches, FFs and registers) [PDF Notes 4up] [PDF Notes 1up] [PDF Complete]
3/7	Midterm in the Quiz Section [Midterm Info]
3/13-3/17	Spring Break
10 3/20-3/24	Sequential logic 2 (latches, FFs and registers) [PDF Notes 4up] [PDF Notes 1up] [PDF Complete]	Lab 8: Pulse width modulation [PDF Complete]	Hardware state machines 1 [PDF Notes 4up] [PDF Notes 1up] [PDF Complete]
11 3/27-3/31	Hardware state machines 2 [PDF Notes 4up] [PDF Notes 1up] [PDF Complete]	Lab 9: Hardware Datapath Components	Hardware components (ALUs, registers, instruction cycle) [PDF Notes 4up] [PDF Notes 1up] [PDF Complete]
12 4/3-4/7	Processor Organization (Design of CPU) [PDF Notes 4up] [PDF Notes 1up] [PDF Complete]	Project	More Processor Org; Performance (Caching, Pipelining) [PDF Notes 4up] [PDF Notes 1up] [PDF Complete]
13 4/10-4/14	Memory, FPGAs [PDF Notes 4up] [PDF Notes 1up] [PDF Complete]	Project	Interfacing (voltage and current capabilities) [PDF Notes 4up] [PDF Notes 1up] [PDF Complete]
14 4/17-4/21	Hardware accelerators [PDF Notes] [PDF Complete]	Project
15 4/24-4/28	Embedded Failures [PDF Complete] [PDF Complete 1up]	Project evaluations	Review [PDF Complete] [Review Handout]
4/29 Saturday at 11:59 p.m.	Last Day to Submit Project code on Vocareum
5/6 Saturday, 2:00-4:00 p.m.	Final Exam [Final Info]