Lecture Schedule

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

Week	Lecture - Tuesday	Lab - Wednesday/Friday	Lecture - Thursday
1 8/22-8/26	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 8/29-9/2	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 9/5-9/9	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 9/12-9/16	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 9/19-9/23	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 9/26-9/30	Combinational logic design 2 (Boolean Algebra, Karnaugh maps) [PDF Notes 4up] [PDF Notes 1up] [PDF Complete]	Lab 5: State Machines	Combinational logic design 3 (More Karnaugh maps)
9/27	Quiz in the Quiz Section [Quiz Info]
7 10/3-10/7	Combinational logic design 4 (Components: Decoders and Muxes) [PDF Notes 4up] [PDF Notes 1up] [PDF Complete]	Lab 6: ADCs	Interrupts [Interrupt PDF Notes 4up] [Interrupt PDF Notes 1up] [Interrupt PDF Complete]
	Video Module: Tri-State Gates - Watch on your own time.
8 10/10-10/14	Signed Number Systems [PDF Notes 4up] [PDF Notes 1up] [PDF Complete]		Fall Recess
9 10/17-10/21	Adders [PDF Notes 4up] [PDF Notes 1up] [PDF Complete]	Lab 7 Interrupts [Rotary Encoders PDF Complete]	Sequential logic 1 (latches, FFs and registers) [PDF Notes 4up] [PDF Notes 1up] [PDF Complete]
10 10/24-10/28	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]
10/25	Midterm in the Quiz Section [Midterm Info]
11 10/31-11/4	Hardware state machines 2 [PDF Notes 4up] [PDF Notes 1up] [PDF Complete]	Lab 9: Pulse width modulation [PDF Complete]	Hardware components (ALUs, registers, instruction cycle) [PDF Notes 4up] [PDF Notes 1up] [PDF Complete]
12 11/7-11/11	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 11/14-11/18	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 11/21-11/25	Embedded Failures [PDF Complete] [PDF Complete 1up]	Holiday	Holiday
15 11/28-12/2	Hardware accelerators [PDF Notes] [PDF Complete]	Project evaluations	Review [PDF Complete] [Review Handout]
12/3 Saturday at 11:59 p.m.	Last Day to Submit Project code on Vocareum
12/10 Saturday, 2:00-4:00 p.m.	Final Exam [Final Info]