Control Systems II

ENTC 5496 Embedded Systems and Software--Web Version

PROFESSOR INFORMATION

Dr. Ray Bachnak

Office Address: Room ST 222D

Office Phone: (361) 825-6025

E-mail Address: rbachnak@falcon.tamucc.edu

Web Page Address: http://www.sci.tamucc.edu/~entc/BachnakPage.html

Office Hours:

Class Hours:

COURSE DESCRIPTION

This course will cover embedded systems and software with emphasis on the 8051 microcontroller. Topics include addressing modes, instruction set, I/O operations, interrupts, timers, memory, peripheral interface devices, serial ports, control of external devices, programming embedded microcontrollers in assembly and C, software development, and real-time systems.

PREREQUISITES

Graduate standing and knowledge of electronic devices and programming languages

TEXTS

The 8051 Microcontroller and Embedded Systems, Muhammad Mazidi and Janice Mazidi, 2000, Prentice Hall.

C and the 8051: Hardware, Modular Programming, and Multitasking, 2th Ed., Tom Schultz, 1998, Prentice Hall.

LABORATORY MANUALS

Available in the ET lab

OBJECTIVES OF STUDY

At successful completion of this course the student will be able to:

Discuss the characteristics of embedded systems

Write assembly language programs

Use C to program microcontrollers

Develop programs for I/O applications

Program microcontrollers for serial data communications

Use microcontrollers for real-world interfacing applications

Develop programs to read/write from/to input/output ports

Discuss memory management, time management, interrupt support, configuration, and initialization.

Apply debugging methods for interrupts.

Use testing and simulation methods.

EVALUATION AND GRADE ASSIGNMENT

Evaluation of student performance is based on homework assignments, lab assignments, a project, and a final exam. The final grade is assigned as follows.

	Points	If	Grade
Homework assignments	05	90 < Total < XX	A
Lab assignments (with reports)	80	80 < Total < 90	B
Final exam	15	70 < Total < 80	C
		60 < total < 70	D
		xx < Total < 60	F
Total	100

Topics to be studied

Readings	Topics
Ch. 0-Mazidi	Intro to microprocessors and microcontrollers
Ch. 1-Mazidi	Characteristics of Microcontrollers
Ch. 2-Mazidi	Assembly language programming, debugging programs
Ch. 5-Mazidi Ch. 3-Mazidi	Addressing modes Instructions
Ch. 4-Mazidi Chs. 6-8-Mazidi	I/O port programming Instruction set
Ch. 9-Mazidi	Timers and counters
Ch. 10-Mazidi Ch. 11-Mazidi	Serial communications Interrupts
Ch. 12-15-Mazidi	Real-world interfacing applications
Ch. 1-Schultz	Programming embedded controllers
Ch. 3-Schultz	Timing and signal details
Ch. 7-Schultz	Functions
Ch. 8-Schultz	Modular programming
Ch. 9-Schultz	Development and debugging
Ch. 10-Schultz	Multitasking
Ch. 11-Schultz	Timers, interrupts, and serial ports
Ch. 12-Schultz	Examples

Homework Assignments:

All review questions in all chapters of Mazidi’s must be turned in by the end of week 8 of the semester.

Laboratory Assignments

The student will develop software programs that:

Implement the real-time operating system (RTOS) for the 8051 board

Create custom C libraries

Configure and use interrupts in programs, and writing interrupt service routines

Use the Code Banking feature of the microcontroller

Include inline assembly instructions in C-code and link C and assembly functions

Implement the hardware watchdog timer

Configure and use the power reduction modes of the 8051.

Configure and program the counter/timer unit

SUPPLEMENTARY READING LIST

Embedded Microcomputer Systems, Jonathan Valvano, Thomson Brooks/Cole, 2003

The 8051 Microcontroller, 3^rd Ed., Scott MacKenzie, 1999, Prentice Hall.

The 80251 Microcontroller, Kenneth Ayala, 2000 Prentice Hall.

The 8051 Microcontroller: Hardware, Software, and Interfacing, 2^nd Ed, James Stewart and Kai Miao, 1999, Prentice Hall.

C and the 8051, 2^nd Ed., Tom Shultz, 1998, Prentice Hall.