Homework Assignments

General policies apply to all of the homework assignments. You are responsible for understanding those policies, and submitting your work in accordance with them. You are also responsible for checking the grade summary when updated grades are posted to ensure that your scores are correctly recorded.

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Week Of	Assignment
January 14	#2(Th)
January 21	#2 one extra week
January 28	#2(T)#3(Th)
February 4	#3(T)#4(Th)
February 11	#4(T)#5(Th)

Week Of	Assignment
February 18	#5(T)#6(Th)
February 25	#6(T)(#7-#8 merged)(Th)
March 3	(#7-#8 merged)(T)#9(Th)
March 10	#9 one extra week
March 17	#9(T)

Week Of	Assignment
March 24	Spring Break
March 31	#10(Th)
April 7	#10(T)#11(Th)
April 14	#11(T)#12(Th)
April 21	#12(T)#13(Th)

Assignment #1

We will not be doing Assignment #1, instead we will start with Assignment #2

Assignment #2

Assembler and Debugger:

Using the Microtec programming environment to manage code development
Configuring the compiler to produce assembly code files
Discovering how common constructs are implemented
Seeing how different addressing modes are used
Using the debugger to inspect values

To be begun during week 2.

Assignment #3

Communication with C:

Using data provided by C
Understanding arithmetic overflow
Returning results to C

To be begun during week 3.

Assignment #4

Addressing mode decoder:

More complex communication with C
Use of logical instructions
Instruction encoding and addressing modes

To be begun during week 4.

Assignment #5

Recursion:

Separation of interface and implementation
Stack storage for local variables
Using the MB5 monitor to follow execution

To be begun during week 5.

Assignment #6

Modules and Linking:

Decomposing a problem
Selecting appropriate languages
Linking across file boundaries
Creating a Makefile

To be begun during week 7.

Assignment #7

Serial I/O:

Manipulation of individual bits
Communication with a device interface
Synchronization with external events

To be begun during week 8.

Assignment #8

Interrupt-Driven Serial I/O:

Setting an interrupt vector
Enabling interrupts
Interrupt handling
Using a circular buffer

To be begun during week 9.

Assignment #9

Analog Output:

Discrete representation of continuous signals
Limitations imposed by CPU speed
Sample storage strategies
Synthesis of complex signals

To be begun during week 10.

Assignment #10

Timing:

Program a counter/timer to interrupt the CPU at specific time intervals
Use the counter/timer interrupt handler to feed samples to the D/A converter
Get practice at enabling and disabling interrupts and installing an interrupt handler

To be begun during week 11.

Assignment #11

Analog Input:

Using a counter/timer to obtain periodic samples of a signal
Using an Analog-to-Digital (A/D) Converter to sample an analog signal
Playing back an analog signal via the Digital-to-Analog (D/A) Converter

To be begun during week 12.

Assignment #12

Logical Input:

Use logical inputs to sense the motion of a shaft, via an encoder
Use look-up tables to replace complex real-time computations
Use the shaft encoder to adjust the volume of a waveform produced by the D/A converter

To be begun during week 14.

Assignment #13

Simple Calculator:

Use the Liquid Crystal Display (LCD)
Use the key pad

To be begun during week 15.

Instructor

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