CP316: Microprocessor Systems and Interfacing

• MPLAB Software
• MPLAB ICD 2 Hardware

• PIC18F452 Microcontroller
• QwikFlash Development Board

• Errors in Huang text (evolving file)
• IEEE 754 Compliant Floating Point Routines
  [pdf 151pp; © 1997 Microchip Technology Inc.]

Project

• Project: Autonomous robot to locate and identify beacons
• Sensor and Actuator Inventory
  

• About this course ... 
• Introduction to the PIC18F452
• Introduction to PIC18 Assembly Language

• select a center bench position where your lab group can have simultaneous access to two computers
• lab safety
• distribution of hardware and review of kit contents
• Introduction to the Development Environment (part 1)
• Introduction to Macros
• Postlab

• install software on home system
• get a lab notebook (if you have room in the notebook you used for PC300, you can used the same lab notebook)

• bring text to lab
• bring a bound lab notebook to the lab

• Addressing Modes & Program Control
• I/O Ports



• Homework: Do NOT hand in!
  Simple PIC18F452 Assembly Language Programs
  

• Prelab: Introduction to the QwikFlash Development Board (power)
• Prelab: Introduction to the QwikFlash Development Board (reset)
  
  
• review use of lab notebooks
• Introduction to the Development Environment (part 2)

• Software and Hardware Timers
• Interrupts (part 1)
  Interrupt chart
• project introduction

• Prelab: Introduction to the QwikFlash Development Board (LEDs)
  
  
• Flashing LEDs using Delay Routines

• Downloading code using the MPLAB ICD 2

• Interrupts (part 2)
  
• Flash and EEPROM Memory
• Digital Inputs: pushbutton

• Prelab: Introduction to the QwikFlash Development Board (clock)
  
  
• Timers and Counters

• Alphanumeric Liquid Crystal Displays

• Prelab: Interrupts
  
  
• Interrupts

• Arithmetic
• Math subroutines chart
• Digital Inputs: rotary pulse generator
• Decimal Arithmetic (BCD)
• Counting and Time

• Prelab: Liquid Crystal Display (LCD)
• Prelab or Postlab: Liquid Crystal Display (LCD)
  
  
• Liquid Crystal Display (LCD)
  

• Time Intervals: measurement and generation

• Prelab: Counting
  
  
• Counting [Binary to BCD Converter Algorithm]
• hand out and explain sample "beacon"
• hand out robot bodies
• assign next week's prelab task (capture or compare) to groups

• Serial Interfaces: MSSP, I²C
• Serial Interfaces: SPI

• Prelab: Capture and Compare
  
  
• Pulse Width Modulation

• USART
• analog to digital conversion

• Prelab: Digital Compass and I2C
  
  
• project plan and schedule in writing in lab book
• group to set deliverable for next week in writing in lab notebook
• all of the above to be discussed with Terry in lab (do not hand in)
• Terry to sign: plan, schedule, and deliverable
  
  
• minimum deliverable this week => robot moves in a straight line

Project

• Project: Autonomous robot to locate and identify beacons
• Sensor and Actuator Inventory
  

• project

• project
• Deliverable: as promised by the group

• project

• project
• Deliverable: as promised by the group

• project & demonstration

• Project Demonstration - April 3 ?

CP316                    Saturday, April 25, 2009  9:00 AM          N1042  

Final exam is short answer (10-20/40 marks) and two programming or design questions (20-30/40).
Sample programming/design question; I would consider this to be two questions. [pdf]