EGR 424
Design of Microcontroller Applications
Summer 2008

Prof. Andrew Sterian
School of Engineering
Grand Valley State University
227 KEN
<steriana@gmail.com> (616) 331-6756

Course Announcements

• Here is Lab #10.
• Here is Learning Activity #12.
• Here is Project #4. The third-party drivers you are to choose from are in the table below.

  Peripheral	Driver
  USB	usb.zip
  SPI	spi.zip
  Serial	serial.zip
  Counter	freqcount.zip

• Here is Lab #9.
• Here is Lab #8.
• Here is Learning Activity #11 and the threaddemo.zip file that it references (UPDATED: It was missing the create.S file).
• Here is Project #3.
• Here is Lab #7.
• Here is Learning Activity #10.
• Here is Lab #6.
• Here is Learning Activity #9.
• Here is Learning Activity #8.
• Here is Project #2. The peripheral assignments are as follows:

  Student(s)	Peripheral
  Bambini & Wright	Stepper
  Bray & Bry	A/D
  Browning & Glaser	SSC
  Dells & Strehlke	Serial
  Klose & Wyatt	SPI
  Kyser & Spafford	PWM
  Morrison & VandenBerge	Frequency Counter
  Gallivan	SPI
  Goote	SSC
  Knoll	PWM
  Kuyvenhoven	Frequency Counter
  Majdandzic	Stepper
  Oosterhouse	USB
  Schulz	Serial
  Thapa	A/D
  Vuong	TWI

• Here is Assignment #4.
• Here is Lab #5.
• Here is Learning Activity #7.
• Here is Lab #4.
• Here is Learning Activity #6.
• Here is Learning Activity #5.
• Here is Lab #3.
• Here is Assignment #3.
• Here is Learning Activity #4.
• Here is Project #1.
• Here is Learning Activity #3.
• Here is Learning Activity #2.
• Here is Assignment #2.
• Here is Lab #2.
• Here is Learning Activity #1.
• Here is Assignment #1.
• Here is Lab #1. Make note of what you need to bring!

Course Links

• Here is the AT91SAM7S resource page.
• Here is a local copy [37MB] of the WinARM tools for Windows, in case you can't get the Linux stuff working yet.
• Here is the llama song.

Reference Documents

• Here is a Shell Command Quick Reference, including some tips for GCC and GVIM.
• Here is a Common Linux Commands Quick Reference, including some tips on using the Bash shell.
• "Programming Embedded Systems" by Michael Barr and Anthony Massa is an O'Reilly book that is very much in the spirit of this course and could serve as a good reference. You can read it for free on-line through GVSU's Safari subscription.
• "MicroC/OS-II" by Jean Labrosse (ISBN-13: 978-0879305437) is a well-respected book that examines the inner-workings of an open-source OS. It also comes with a CD that includes the OS which you can port to many microprocessors.

Course Quotes

• "The higher the course level, the harder it is to blink an LED" -- Matt Shinew