Lecture Schedule

The following is a tentative schedule for the Spring 2022 semester.

Week	Lecture - Monday/Tuesday	Lab - Wednesday/Friday	Lecture - Wednesday/Thursday
1 1/10-10/14	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 1/17-1/21	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)	Number systems, binary, hexadecimal, character codes [PDF Notes 4up] [PDF Notes 1up] [PDF Complete]
3 1/24-1/28	Single variable Boolean algebra, microcontollers 1 (bitwise operations) [PDF Notes 4up] [PDF Notes 1up] [PDF Complete]	Lab 2 - Oscilloscopes, combination gate network, delays	Microcontrollers 2 (digital I/O)
4 1/31-2/4	Microcontroller 3 (advanced bit fiddling), state machines [PDF Notes 4up] [PDF Notes 1up] [PDF Complete]	Lab 3: Digital I/O lab with Arduinos	LCDs and parallel interfaces [PDF Notes 4up] [PDF Notes 1up] [PDF Complete]
5 2/7-2/11	Combinational logic design 1 (Minterms/maxterms) [PDF Notes 4up] [PDF Notes 1up] [PDF Complete]	Lab 4: LCDs	Combinational logic design 2 (Boolean Algebra, Karnaugh maps) [PDF Notes 4up] [PDF Notes 1up] [PDF Complete]
6 2/14-2/18	Combinational logic design 3 (More Karnaugh maps)	Lab 5: State Machines	Combinational logic design 4 (Components: Decoders and Muxes) [PDF Notes 4up] [PDF Notes 1up] [PDF Complete]
2/16	Quiz in the Quiz Section [Quiz Info]
7 2/21-2/25	Interrupts [Interrupt PDF Notes 4up] [Interrupt PDF Notes 1up] [Interrupt PDF Complete]	Lab 6: ADCs	Signed Number Systems [PDF Notes 4up] [PDF Notes 1up] [PDF Complete]
	Video Module: Tri-State Gates - Watch on your own time.
8 2/28-3/4	Adders [PDF Notes 4up] [PDF Notes 1up] [PDF Complete]	Lab 7 Interrupts [Rotary Encoders PDF Complete]	Adder exercises
9 3/7-3/11	Sequential logic 1 (latches, FFs and registers) [PDF Notes 4up] [PDF Notes 1up] [PDF Complete]
3/9	Midterm in the Quiz Section [Midterm Info]
3/14-3/18	Spring Break
10 3/21-3/25	Sequential logic 2 (latches, FFs and registers) [PDF Notes 4up] [PDF Notes 1up] [PDF Complete]	Lab 8: Timers [PDF Complete]	Hardware state machines 1 [PDF Notes 4up] [PDF Notes 1up] [PDF Complete]
11 3/28-4/1	Hardware state machines 2 [PDF Notes 4up] [PDF Notes 1up] [PDF Complete]	Lab 9: Serial communications [PDF Complete]	Hardware components (ALUs, registers, instruction cycle) [PDF Notes 4up] [PDF Notes 1up] [PDF Complete]
12 4/4-4/8	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 4/11-4/15	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 4/18-4/22	Hardware accelerators [PDF Notes] [PDF Complete]	Project
15 4/25-4/29	Embedded Failures [PDF Complete] [PDF Complete 1up]	Project evaluations	Review [PDF Complete] [Review Handout]
4/30 Saturday at 11:59 p.m.	Last Day to Submit Project code on Vocareum
5/7 Saturday, 2:00-4:00 p.m.	Final Exam [Final Info]