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Lecture: Development of Microcontroller Circuit Boards
Demo and development boards – rapid prototyping
PCB design tools (hardware)
PCB manuf. technologies
Hardware testing methods
Lecture: Microcontroller architectures
8-bit MCUs (Atmel AVR)
16-bit MCUs (TI MSP430 or STM ST10)
32-bit MCUs (ARM Cortex-M)
Comparing applications of different architectures in the same control application
Lecture Direct access to MCU peripherals 1
Digital I/O (with examples)
Counters, timers (with examples)
Lecture: Direct access to MCU peripherals 2
A/D and D/A converters (with examples)
Communication interfaces (with examples)
Lecture: MCU interrupt system
Interrupt sources (external, internal), their vectors
Programming interrupt routines
Interrupt priority
Lecture: Serial communications with MCUs
RS232, RS422, RS485
SPI
Lecture: Standard MCU buses
I2C
CAN, LIN
Lecture: Low power microcontroller applications
Battery power: characteristics, parameters, types
Characteristics of states with reduced power consumption
Hardware measures to reduce power consumption
Software measures to reduce consumption
Lecture: Operating systems for real-time processing
Real-time operation and multitasking in embedded systems
Example: FreeRTOS
Tasks, scheduling algorithms
Management: memory, queues, program timers, interrupts, resources
Task communication services
Lecture: Developing a control application with FreeRTOS (by example)
Application layout
FreeRTOS function calls
Implementation
Using debugging tools
Lecture: Linux for Embedded Systems
Features, distributions
Setting up a selected distribution on a microcomputer (eg Raspberry Pi)
Basic admin tasks, using CLI interface
Application management
Lecture Programmable logic: FPGA
Structure and operation of FPGAs
FPGA Programming Development Environment (Xilinx example; tools, procedures …)
Implementing a MCU in a FPGA (Xilinx Microblaze example)
Lecture: Programming FPGAs for control applications
Fundamentals of programming in HDL (Hardware Description Language) (Verilog)
Code simulations – writing test benches, signal visualization (Verilog)
Developing a FPGA based embedded controller (microcontroller, peripherals, control program in language C) – example
Readings
Valvano J. Embedded Systems: Real-Time Operating Systems for Arm Cortex M Microcontrollers – 2nd edition. CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2012.
Johnson A. More to C – Advanced Programming with C in Linux and on Raspberry Pi – 1st edition. CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2017.
Monk S. Programming FPGAs: Getting Started with Verilog – 1st edition. McGraw-Hill Education TAB, 2016.