ECGR 4101-5101

Lecture #	Notes Topic	Key Concepts	Reading & Resources
Lecture 1 - Part 1 Lecture 1 - Part 2	Syllabus Notes 1: Introduction to Embedded Systems and Microcontroller-based Circuit Design (updated 11/18/10 - minor) (1-1 to 1-12)	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
Lecture 2 - Part 1 Lecture 2 - Part 2	Notes 1-13 to 1-29 Notes 2: M16C Instruction Set Architecture (updated 11/18/10 - minor) (2-1 to 2-15)	ISA, register set, addressing modes, operations	MDS pp. 1-26, 170-180 MSM pp. 1-32
Lecture 3 - Part 1 Lecture 3 - Part 2	Notes 2-15 to 2-28 Notes 3: C Programming Review and Dissection I (3-1 to 3-12)	Variables (local, global), memory sections, control structures, call stacks	P&P Ch. 11, 12, 13 MCPM Ch. 1, 2.1
Lecture 4 - Part 1 Lecture 4 - Part 2	Notes 3-13 to 3-29 Notes 4: C Programming Review and Dissection II (4-1 to 4-5)	Functions, arguments, return values, arrays	P&P Ch. 14, 16
Lecture 5 - Part 1 Lecture 5 - Part 2	Notes 4-5 to 4-35 Renesas Tools example Plus these Handouts and Extra Notes	Renesas Quick Start Guide
Lecture 6 - Part 1 Lecture 6 - Part 2	Notes 4-35, Demo of tools Notes 5: C Programming Review and Dissection III (5-1 to 5-16)	Pointers, strings, formatted output	P&P Ch. 18, 19
Lecture 7 - Part 1 Lecture 7 - Part 2	Notes 6: C Programming Review and Dissection IV (6-1 to 6-16)	Dynamic memory management and linked lists
Lecture 8 - Part 1 Lecture 8 - Part 2	Notes 9: Disciplined Software Development (9-1 to 9-26) Plus these Extra Notes	Writing algorithms and code and tests	Ten essential elements to guarantee enhanced software quality, Deepti Sharma
Lecture 9 - Part 1 Lecture 9 - Part 2	Notes 7: C Start-Up Module and Simple Digital I/O (7-1 to 7-24) Demo of Tools	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
Lecture 10	Notes 8: Analog to Digital Conversion (8-1 to 8-16) Plus these Extra Notes	Analog to digital conversion	- Analog to Digital Converters, Stuart Ball - MDS pp. 187-202 convert_temp.c, convert_temp.h, main_convert_temp.c, lab5_ADC_example.c
Lecture 11 - Part 1 Lecture 11 - Part 2	Notes 8-16 to 8-34 Plus these Extra Notes	Analog to digital conversion
Lecture 12 - Part 1 Lecture 12 - Part 2	Notes 10: Interrupts and Using them in C (10-1 to 10-10) Plus these Extra Notes	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
Lecture 13	Notes 10-11 to 10-27 Plus these Extra Notes	Interrupt concepts and behavior and how to program with them in C
Lecture 14 - Part 1 Lecture 14 - Part 2	Notes 11: Serial Communications (11-1 to 11-14) Plus these Extra Notes	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
Lecture 15 - Part 1 Lecture 15 - Part 2	Notes 11-15 to 11-25 Notes 12: Interrupt-Driven Serial Communications and Sharing Data (12-1 to 12-4) Plus these Extra Notes	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
Lecture 16	Notes 12-5 to 12-6 Plus these Extra Notes	Serial ISRs, synchronization between ISR and main program
Lecture 17 - Part 1 Lecture 17 - Part 2	Notes 12-6 to 12-16 Plus these Extra Notes	Serial ISRs, synchronization between ISR and main program
Lecture 18 - Part 1 Lecture 18 - Part 2	Notes 13: Timers and Event Counters (13-1 to 13-18) Plus these Extra Notes	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
Lecture 19 - Part 1 Lecture 19 - Part 2	Notes 13-18 to 13-28 Plus these Extra Notes
Lecture 20 - Part 1 Lecture 20 - Part 2	Notes 14: Software Testing (14-1 to 14-29) Plus these Extra Notes	Aspects of software testability, test case design (white-box and black-box)	- Studs and Duds, Eric Umansky
Lecture 21 will not be recorded - read the notes	Notes 15: Debugging Software and Hardware (15-1 to 15-23)	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
Lecture 22 - Part 1 Lecture 22 - Part 2	Notes 16: Sharing the Processor (16-1 to 16-18) Plus these Extra Notes	General discussion of schedulers and operating systems
Lecture 23 - Part 1 Lecture 23 - Part 2	Notes 16-19 to 16-25 Notes 17: Round-Robin Non-Preemptive Schedule	Round-robin non-preemptive scheduler	- Reentrancy, Jack Ganssle see skp26.c and skp26.h
Lecture 24 - Part 1 Lecture 24 - Part 2	Notes 18: Preemptive Scheduling (18-1 to 18-8) Plus these Extra Notes	State machines, Thread Control Blocks	Context Switch, David Kalinsky
Lecture 25 - Part 1 Lecture 25 - Part 2	Notes 18-9 to 18-30 Plus these Extra Notes
Lecture 26	Notes 19: Process Coordination and Scheduling 1 (19-1 to 19-24)	Shared data problem revisited, Synchronization primitives
Lecture 27	Notes 20: Process Coordination and Scheduling 2 (20-1 to 20-24) Plus these Extra Notes	Semaphores and Monitors, NRT and RT Scheduling
Lecture 28	Notes 21: Run-Time Methods for Robustness (21-1 to 21-20)	Watchdog timers, stack pointer monitoring and brown-out detection	Watchdog Timers, Niall Murphy & Michael Barr Born to Fail, Jack Ganssle main_wdt.c
	Miscellaneous Notes Notes 22: Memory Expansion and DMA		Miscellaneous readings Efficient C Code for 8-Bit MCUs, Nigel Jones Fixed-Point Math in C, Joe Lemieux Keys to Writing Efficient Embedded Code, Bill Trudell

MDS	M16C62_Hardware_Manual_rev1.20.pdf	Renesas M30626P 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	Patt and Patel Slides	Introduction to Computing Systems, Patt & Patel, 2nd Edition

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