F09 447 1 Introduction

8/3/2019 F09 447 1 Introduction

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ECE 447: Course Organization

Instructor: Michael Garcia, Engineering Bldg. 3707, [email protected]

Office hours: Wednesday, 7:20-8:20pm; Sunday, TBD

Lab assistants:Michael Garcia (Monday) [email protected] Chaney (Tuesday) [email protected]

Joel Potter (Wednesday) [email protected] Almujehad (Thursday) [email protected]


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Digital Systems and Computers Curriculum

ECE 331 ECE 332

ECE 280

C

ECE 445

C

ECE 447

C

C

ECE 448

PHYS 261 PHYS 265

or

ECE 492

ECE 493

CS 222 CS 367

BS EE

BS CpE

Color code:

C


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Digital system design technologiescoverage in the CpE & EE programs at GMU

FPGAs ASICsMicroprocessors& Microcontrollers

ECE 445

ECE 447

ECE 586

ECE 448

ECE 511

ECE 611

ECE 431ComputerOrganization

Single ChipMicrocomputers

FPGA & ASIC Design with VHDL

Digital Circuit Design

Microprocessors

AdvancedMicroprocessors

Digital Integrated Circuits

VLSI Design for ASICs

ECE 545 Digital System Design with VHDL

ECE 645 Computer Arithmetic

ECE 680

ECE 681

ECE 612 Real-Time EmbeddedSystems

Physical VLSI Design

VLSI Test ConceptsECE 682


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ECE 447: Course Prerequisites

Required:

1. Knowledge of computer programming in C or C++,e.g., CS 222 or CS 367 (or former CS 211/CS 320),

with a grade of C or better2. Knowledge of digital system design and computer

organization,

e.g., ECE 331/332/445, all with a grade of C or

better

Recommended:

Programming in assembly language


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ECE 447: Instructional Team Division ofTasks

Course Instructor Primary Responsibilities: Lectures Preparing and grading exams and quizzes

Coordination of classroom lectures and labexercises

Coordination of work done by the TAs Enforcing consistent policies and grading standards Mid-semester student satisfaction survey Resolving conflicts and providing feedback to the

TAs Holding office hours


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ECE 447: Instructional Team Division ofTasks

Lab Instructors Primary Responsibilities: Teaching hands-on sessions on how to use

software, hardware and testing equipment needed

for experiments Introductions to the lab experiments Grading student demonstrations and reports Preparing and grading midterm lab exam Holding office hours Development and testing of new lab experiments


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ECE 447: Course Hours

Lecture:Monday, Wednesday5:55-7:10 PM, Enterprise Hall Room 276

Lab Sessions:

Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday7:20-10:00 PM, Engineering Building Room 3208

There will be no lab meetings in the first week of classes.

In the second week of classes, Monday section students

are requested to attend one of the other sections.

Office Hours of Lab Instructors :TBD and posted on the web


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ECE 447: Labs Section Participation Rules

Students are welcome to attend any office hoursessions held by any member of the instructional staff

Students should only attend the lab class section for

which they are assigned, except in case of emergency.In such cases the student will be given second priorityto lab resources after students assigned to the labsection.

All experiment demonstrations must be done in thepresence of the students TA, and be done exclusivelyduring the class time of your section


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ECE 447: Lab Section Enrollment (08/27)

Monday - 11

Tuesday - 9

Wednesday - 10 Thursday - 9


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ECE 447: Course Grading

Labs 40%

Midterm Exam for the Lab 10%

Midterm Exams for the Lecture 10%

Quizzes & Homework 15%

Final Exam 25%


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ECE 447: Course Materials

Weekly Lecture Materials PowerPoint presentations, posted on the web - please

print BEFORE each class. Supplemental lecture material will be presented on the

whiteboard

Required Texts: Davies, MSP430 Microcontroller Basics Kernighan & Ritchie, The C Language

Supplementary Materials: articles manuals catalogs

web sites - e.g., on-line catalogs, examples


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ECE 447: Exams and Quizzes

Midterm Exams:

Software problems (C and assembly language)

Hardware problems (block diagrams)

Short answer

Quizzes:

~5-15 minutes 1 or 2 questions on current material

Closed books & notes


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ECE 447: Texas Instruments MSP430

Texas Instruments MSP430FG4618/F2013Experimenter's Board: Two MSP430s

FG4618

LCD controller

Three Channel Internal DMA

116KB Flash, 8KB RAM

Successive Approximation 12-bit A/D Converter

Dual 12-bit D/A Converter

much more

F2013 Sigma Delta 16-bit A/D Converter

2KB Flash, 128B RAM

Watchdog and Timers

Universal Serial Interface

Parallel I/O


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ECE 447: Texas Instruments MSP430

Texas Instruments MSP430FG4618/F2013Experimenter's Board: JTAG Debugger Interface (USB Pod)

Softbaugh Segment LCD

Microphone LEDs

Push Buttons

Capacitive Touch Pad

I/O Pin Headers for off-board device integration Texas Instruments MSP-FET430UIF

JTAG/USB flash emulation tool for all MSP430

Supports both JTAG and Spy-Bi-Wire (2-wire JTAG)

debug protocols.


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ECE 447: Peripheral components

Seven segment display MAN-72

12 button X-Y keypad

DS1620 Serial temperature sensor

16 x 2 LCD display

74HC244 Octal buffer with 3-state outputs

74HC245 Octal bus transceiver

10 Kohm potentiometer


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ECE 447: Lab development kit

Lab development kit to be purchased

by each student from Sue Davies,

The Engineering Bldg., room 3915, using MasonMoney only

Cost TBD


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ECE 447: MSP430 Software Development

Code Composer Essentials

MSP430 C compiler, assembler and linker

Source Code Debugger

Integrated Visual Project Manager

Hardware and virtual breakpoints

Integrated editior

Additional IAR Kickstart Environment is availablefor the MSP430.


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ECE 447: Hardware Laboratory

Several structured lab lectures and labassignments during the semester.

Devoted to the introduction of major functional

units of MSP430 and several peripheralcomponents (7-segment display, keypad, LCD,etc.)

Taught by Lab Instructors,

in the Engineering Building, Room 3208,Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday7:20 to 10:00pm.


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ECE 447: Challenging and Rewarding

Breadth of knowledge Software (C, assembly language, interrupts, polling, etc.)

Hardware (microprocessor, peripheral devices, addressdecoding, parallel I/O, serial communication, A to D)

Interfacing Hardware and Software together

Practical Skills Understanding component specifications

Laying out & mounting components

Debugging Hardware and Software

Time Management

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