EE319K Introduction to Embedded Systems

Course Overview

EE319K will continue the bottom-up educational approach, started in BME303 and EE306. The overall educational objective is to allow students to discover how the computer interacts with its environment. It will provide hands-on experiences of how an embedded system could be used to solve EE problems. The focus will be understanding and analysis rather than design. The analog to digital converter (ADC) and digital to analog converter (DAC) are the chosen mechanism to bridge the CE and EE worlds. EE concepts include Ohms Law, LED voltage/current, resistance measurement, and stepper motor control. CE concepts include I/O device drivers, debugging, stacks, FIFO queues, local variables and interrupts. You may use, edit, run or distribute these files as long as the copyright notices within the files remain. No specific warranty exists concerning the accuracy or reliability of these examples. I think they work, but history has shown, sometimes I can be wrong.

Syllabus

The syllabus for the course can be found [here] (/Syllabus-EE319K.pdf).

Labs

Setup

To configure your workspace for the labs:

1. Install [Keil] (http://users.ece.utexas.edu/~valvano/Volume1/KeilInstall.htm).
2. Install drivers for [Windows XP] (http://users.ece.utexas.edu/~valvano/edX/InstallDriversXP.htm), [Windows Vista] (http://users.ece.utexas.edu/~valvano/edX/InstallDriversVista.htm), [Windows 7] (http://users.ece.utexas.edu/~valvano/edX/InstallDrivers7.htm), and [Windows 8] (http://users.ece.utexas.edu/~valvano/edX/InstallDrivers8.htm).
3. Install [EE319kWare] (http://edx-org-utaustinx.s3.amazonaws.com/UT601x/EE319K_InstallSpring2016.exe).

To configure your workspace for version control (downloading and submitting labs):

1. Install [Git for Windows] (https://git-for-windows.github.io/).
2. Install [Tortoise Git] (https://tortoisegit.org/download/).

Starter files

The starter files for each lab are hosted in a separate repository. Links to the lab repositories can be found here:

• [Lab 1] (https://github.com/UT-EmbeddedSystemsAndIndustry-2016/Lab1)
• [Lab 2] (https://github.com/UT-EmbeddedSystemsAndIndustry-2016/Lab2)
• [Lab 3] (https://github.com/UT-EmbeddedSystemsAndIndustry-2016/Lab3)
• [Lab 4] (https://github.com/UT-EmbeddedSystemsAndIndustry-2016/Lab4)

Workflow

We will follow a standard Github workflow for working on and submitting labs. This process is widely used in industry and will be useful to you in future collaborative projects.

1. To start, fork the repository on Github. Give your team write permissions under Settings -> Collaborators and Teams.
2. Clone the repository to your computer.
3. As you work on the lab, you will modify the files and commit changes to complete your solution.
4. Push/sync the changes up to your fork on GitHub.
5. Create a pull request on the original repository to turn in the assignment.

Resources

• [Datasheets] (http://users.ece.utexas.edu/%7Evalvano/Volume1/datasheets.htm)
• [Creating a new project in Keil] (http://users.ece.utexas.edu/~valvano/EE345L/Labs/Fall2011/CreatingProject.pdf)
• [How to reflash your chip] (http://users.ece.utexas.edu/~valvano/EE345L/Labs/Fall2011/Ifyoumessuptheboard.pdf)
• [How to port one uVision project into another] (http://users.ece.utexas.edu/~valvano/Volume1/Porting_Project.pdf)