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# EECS 373: Design of Microprocessor-Based Systems (F'14)
### Announcements 12/13/2014: Practice ADC/DAC problems. 12/09/2014: Poster and Demo Session from 10:00-12:00 in Tishman Hall. 10/28/2014: Homework 4 assigned. 10/15/2014: Midterm Review Session from 6:00-7:30pm in EWRE 104 on 10/15/2014. 10/15/2014: Homework 3 solutions. 10/07/2014: Homework 3 & Practice Midterm assigned. Solutions for: Homework 1 and Homework 2. 09/17/2014: Homework 2 assigned. 09/03/2014: Homework 1 assigned posted. References: combinational and sequential tutorials. 09/02/2014: Welcome to EECS 373! ### Course Administrivia Course: EECS 373, Fall 2014, 4 Units, CN: 10471 Instructional Staff: Prabal Dutta (Instructor) Matt Smith (Lab Instructor) Chris Fulara (IA) Chris Heyer (IA) Ryan Wooster (IA) Dili Hu (Grader) Homepage: http://www.eecs.umich.edu/~prabal/teaching/eecs373 Lecture: 2150 DOW Tue/Thu: 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM Lab: 2334 EECS Tue: 3:00 PM - 6:00 PM (CN: 10473) Wed: 3:00 PM - 6:00 PM (CN: 10474) Thu: 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM (CN: 10475) Office Hours: Tue: 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM (4773 BBB)
### Course Description This class is focused on the principles and practices of modern embedded systems design. In class, we will focus on computer architecture beyond the CPU, fundamentals of the hardware/software interface, techniques for sensing and controlling the physical world, and a few other topics. In lab, we will focus on the ARM Cortex-M3, Actel FPGAs, and other supporting hardware, to learn how to design, build, and program embedded systems. Labs during the first half of the course will focus on essential topics. The second half of the course will focus on the design and implementation of non-trivial, open-ended project involving both hardware and software. The labs and project will require a substantial amount of time -- this is a lab-intensive class with a heavy workload. ### Syllabus (Tentative)
Day | Date | Topic | Lead(s) | Lab
ARM System Architecture
1 | Sep 2 | Introduction (PPT | PDF | 6up) | Dutta | Lab # 1 : Hardware Tools
2 | Sep 4 | Architecture, Assembly, ABI (PPT | PDF | 6up) | Dutta
3 | Sep 9 | Assembly, ABI, Toolchains (PPT | PDF | 6up) | Ghena | Lab # 2 : Software Tools
4 | Sep 11 | MMIO and APB (PPT | PDF | 6up) | Ghena
5 | Sep 16 | Memory/Peripheral Bus: AMBA (PPT | PDF | 6up) | Dutta | Lab # 3 : Memory-Mapped I/O
6 | Sep 18 | Memory Bus, Interrupts (1) (PPT | PDF | 6up) | Dutta
7 | Sep 23 | Interrupts, ARM NVIC (PPT | PDF | 6up) | Dutta | Lab # 4 : Interrupts
8 | Sep 25 | Timers (PPT | PDF | 6up) | Dutta
Peripheral Interfacing
9 | Sep 30 | Timers (continued) and Digital I/O (PPT | PDF | 6up) | Dutta | Lab # 5 : Clocks, Counters, and Timers
10 | Oct 2 | Serial buses: UART, SPI, and I2C (PPT | PDF | 6up) | Dutta
11 | Oct 7 | Sampling, ADCs, DACs (PPT | PDF | 6up) | Dutta | Lab # 6 : Serial Bus Interfacing
12 | Oct 9 | Catch up and Review | Dutta
13 | Oct 14 | NO LECTURE: Fall Study Break |  | Lab # 6 : Serial Bus Interfacing
14 | Oct 16 | Midterm |
15 | Oct 21 | Research Projects Overview (PPT | PDF | 6up) | Dutta | Lab # 7 : ADC/DAC Data Converters
16 | Oct 23 | Project Overview (PPT | PDF | 6up) | Pannuto
Projects
17 | Oct 28 | Project Discussions and Breakout Meetings | All | Projects
18 | Oct 30 | PCB Design (PDF | 6up) | DeBruin
19 | Nov 4 | NO LECTURE: Project Meetings | Students & Staff | Projects
20 | Nov 6
21 | Nov 11 | NO LECTURE: Special Topics Meetings | Students & Staff | Projects
22 | Nov 13
23 | Nov 18 | TBD | TBD | Projects
24 | Nov 20 | Special Topics: Sensing - Temperature/Humidity Sensors - Accelerometers - Microphones - NFC | Students | Projects
25 | Nov 25 | Special Topics: Computation and Storage - DSPs vs MPUs vs FPGAs - Cortex-M Series Processors - Cortex-M3 Processors - Flash/FRAM Memory | Students | Projects
| Nov 27 | NO LECTURE: Thanksgiving Break |  | NO LAB: Thanksgiving Break
26 | Dec 2 | Special Topics: Communications - Cameras - BLE (1) - BLE (2) - 802.15.4/ZigBee/6LoWPAN | Students | Projects
27 | Dec 4 | Special Topics: Power - Power Supplies - Energy Storage - Energy Harvesting - Motor Control | Students | Projects
28 | Dec 9 | Demo & Poster Session Time: 10:00-12:30 Location: TBD | Students | Projects
29 | Dec ?? | Review and Wrap-Up | Dutta | Projects
30 | Dec 16 | Final Exam Time: 1:30-3:30pm Location: EECS 1500 | Students |
### Prerequisites The curricular prequisites for this class include EECS 270 (Introduction to Logic Design), EECS 280 (Programming and Introductory Data Structures), and EECS 370 (Introduction to Computer Organization). The course bulletin outlines the contents of these courses. In general, students are expected to have a firm grasp on combinational and sequential logic design, be familiar with assembly language programming (for some architecture), be proficient in C programming, and know their way around the elements of a computer. In addition, success in this course will require substantial reading and hacking, and students will need a high degree of patience and determination. ### Policies Honor Code. The Engineering Honor Code applies to all assignments and exams. Learn Concepts Together through Discussion. Verbal collaboration between members of different groups is permitted for the purpose of helping classmates to understand concepts essential to the labs or providing one another with insights into the best way to approach the in-lab assignments. Do Your Own Work. Individual assignments (e.g., prelabs, homeworks, and exams) are to be performed on your own. Group assignments (e.g., labs, lab reports, and postlabs) are to be performed only by members of the group. Non-verbal collaboration (e.g. drawing sample schematics on paper or the whiteboard, sharing schematics or code) is not allowed. You may not help debug another group's hardware or software without consent from the lab or course instructor. You are also not allowed to possess, look at, use, or in any way derive advantage from the existence of code, lab reports, or other material prepared in prior years. Attend Your Registered Lab. You are expected to attend the lab section for which you are registered. If you would like to switch lab sections, but the section you want is full, you must find someone in that lab section to swap positions with you. Once you have agreed on a swap, send email to Matt Smith. All section swaps must be completed before the second week of lab. Prelabs. Prelabs are due in lab during the week the lab is to start. All prelabs must be turned in within the 20 minutes after the offical start of lab (on the half hour) (to allow for tardiness, printing problems, etc.) or you will only get 50% of the credit otherwise earned. Prelabs more than one week late will earn no credit. For any labs which span multiple weeks, the prelab is due during the first week of that lab. Prelabs are to be done individually unless otherwise specified in the lab itself. Postlabs. Postlabs are due in lab the week after the last week of that lab. They are due 20 minutes after the start of that lab period. Just like prelabs, late labs earn only 50% of the credit otherwise earned and postlabs which are more than one week late get no credit. Postlabs are to be done by the group unless otherwise specified in the lab itself. In-Labs. In-labs are due by Friday of the last week of the lab in open lab hours (you are welcome to turn it in before this and most students do). One of the lab instructors must sign your in-lab form by that time for the in-lab to be on time. You should hand in the signed (and dated) in-lab form with your postlab. Late in-labs lose 10% of their value per business day (Monday though Friday not including holidays) they are late. You may only work with your lab group (generally one other person) on your in-lab. ### Grading
Item | Weight | Description
Labs | 25% | Eight labs: Lab 3 (4%); All other labs (3%).
Project | 25% | Group project demonstrating understanding of major topics.
Exams | 35% | Two exams: Midterm (15%); Final (20%).
Homework | 10% | Four or five homework assignments weighted roughly equally.
Presentation | 5% | Group presentation to class.
### Resources Combinational Logic Tutorial Sequential Logic Tutorial ARMv7 Architecture Reference Manual ARM Cortex-M3 Technical Reference Manual v2.1 ARM and Thumb-2 Instruction Set Quick Reference Card ARM Architecture Procedure Call Standard (EABI) ARM Cortex-M3 Embedded Software Development (AN-179) ### Related Courses Berkeley: EE 145L Berkeley: EE 149 Colorado: ECEN 5613 Columbia: CSEE 4840 Cornell: ECE 3140 Cornell: ECE 4760 Lund: EDA 385 Stanford: EE 281 UCSC UCSD: CSE 237d UNL: CSCE 236 Utah: CS 5785 UW: EE 472 ### Support
| This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under grant #0964120. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.
| This course and lab use hardware and software provided by Microsemi Corporation, including the SmartFusion MCU+FPGA development boards and the Libero Gold and Platinum software development tools.