ECE319K/ECE319H Introduction to Embedded Systems
Email
all professors and TAs (sp25_ece319k@utlists.utexas.edu)
Course Catalog Description
Embedded
systems;
machine language
execution; assembly and C language programming; local variables and
subroutines; input/output synchronization; analog to digital conversion
and
digital to analog conversion; debugging; and interrupts.
Overview
ECE319K
will continue
the bottom-up
educational approach, started in ECE302 and ECE306. 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 software, computer, and
electrical engineering
worlds. Electrical engineering concepts include Ohms Law, LED voltage/current, resistance
measurement, and stepper motor control. Software engineering concepts include
debugging, pointers, local variables, and data structures (stacks, queues, linked lists). Computer engineering concepts include I/O device
drivers, real-time execution using interrupts. The
hardware
construction is performed on a breadboard and debugged using a
multimeter
(students learn to measure voltage and resistance). Software is
developed in
ARM Cortex-M0+ assembly and C; all labs will run on
the real MSPM0G3507 board. Software and hardware debugging occur concurrently. Labs 1, and 2 are written
in ARM
assembly language. Labs 6 and 7 are written in a combination of
assembly and
C. Labs 3, 4, 5, 8 and 9 are written in C. ECE319H students write Labs 8 and 9 in C++.
ECE319K/ECE319H is team-taught. The course materials have been developed collaboratively by all instructors (Chiou, Erez, Cuevas, Telang, Tiwari, Valvano, Holt, and Yerraballi). All five lecture sections will share the same TAs, PowerPoint slides, lab assignments, Quizzes, and Exams. ECE319K/ECE319H will give common Exams 1 and 2 in the evening. Please check the date/time for exams 1 and 2 and make sure they fit your schedule; Let your instructor know if your schedule conflicts with these date/time. The final exam is also common and the date/time will be announced once assigned by the registrar.
You can only switch lab sections using official add/drop procedures.
Lectures will be presented in person. TA office hours and lab checkouts will be performed in person.
Instructors:
Ramesh Yerraballi, EER 5.824, ramesh@mail.utexas.edu, http://www.ece.utexas.edu/~ryerraballi
Lillian Chin, EER 4.820, ltchin@utexas.edu
Lucas Holt, lucas.holt@utexas.edu
Mohit Tiwari, EER 5.886 tiwari@austin.utexas.edu
Professor office hours See Canvas for most up to date information
Yerraballi : TTh
2:00-3:30pm (EER 5.824)
Holt : T 12:45-1:35pm (EER 5.870) and Friday 6:30-7-30pm (Zoom)
Tiwari: TBD
Chin: T 4:30-6:00pm, F 8:00-9:30am (EER 4.820)
Teaching Philosophy The ECE319K/ECE319H staff strongly encourage students to take an active role in this class. Questions are welcome before, during and after class. Please feel free to email, visit or call us if you have questions.
Grading based on your effort
20% Weekly Quizzes, Online on Canvas, one due each Friday
(Attendance will be recorded; If
you have adequate attendance then we will drop your 2 lowest scoring
quizzes at the end of the semester when calculating final grades
else, your quiz grade will be calculated without drops.)
30% Laboratory Assignments, Due at lab times (Tue/Wed/Thu)
Grading based on exams
15% Exam 1 Thursday 2/20, 7-8:30pm, room see Canvas, on paper
15% Exam 2 Thursday 3/27, 7-8:30pm, room see Canvas, on your laptop
20% Uniform Final Exam, Friday May 2nd 7-9pm
for regular, Statuday May 3rd 7-9pm for makeup, on paper
If you are the one who is doing the effort, you will do well on the exams.
Cutoff scores for the letter grades will not be determined until after the final exam.
Lab lectures Each week we will provide one or two optional Lab lectures. The times for the lectures are: Thursdays (ECJ 1.202) 7-8:30pm and Mondays (CMA 2.306) 7-8:30pm. Lab lectures will be given by the TAs. There will be lab lectures only when a lab is due the next week. First lab lecture will be Thursday January 23rd in ECJ 1.202.
TAs
(Photos of TAs): The
office hours and
locations will be posted on Canvas.
Grad TAs:
Elise Johnson,
Shrihari Shanmugasundaram,
Prithvi Senthilkumar, Adithyan Vetruvelan, Neil Roy
UG TAs: Amina
Meddad, Anthony Hermez, Anna Guo, Vivek Keval, Jeremy Sheng, Arsen
Iman, Eric James Goode, Devin Kretschman, Dhruv Bansal, Yilin Jin
Supplemental Instruction TA:
TBD
Lecture notes, Canvas quizzes, data sheets, reference materials, and lab assignments) see http://www.ece.utexas.edu/~valvano/mspm0
Required Text: Introduction to Embedded Systems Using the MSPM0+, ISBN: 979-8852536594. This book is printed on demand and can be purchased from Amazon.com. https://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Embedded-Systems-Using-MSPM0/dp/B0C9SB2QQ9
Equipment to buy: see Canvas announcement for buying details
- A personal laptop. The laptop will need a USB port and run the application Code Composer Studio.
- A MSPM0 LP-MSPM0G3507 LaunchPad
- A 160 by 128 pixel color graphics LCD, ST7735R
- A solderless breadboard and wires
- A digital multimeter
Safety
warning:
Course
Outcomes
After
the successful
conclusion
of ECE319K/ECE319H students should be able to understand the basic components of
a
computer, write assembly and C language programs that perform I/O
functions and
implement simple data structures, manipulate numbers in multiple
formats, and
understand how software uses global memory to store permanent
information and
the stack to store temporary information.
Detailed Objectives of ECE319K/ECE319H
Prerequisites:
EE306, ECE306 or BME306 with a grade of at least C-. You should recall:
Attendance:
Students
are
expected to attend lectures. The book covers more information than the
class, and
we will use lectures to map our way through the class. If you miss class
you may
find it difficult to catch up.
Exams: All students in ECE319K/ECE319H will take Exam 1, Exam 2 and the Final Exam at the same time and place. Exam 2 is practical programming exam during which you will design, implement, and debug a software system in assembly and C. You will be writing software using CCS on the real microcontroller for Exam 2.
Lab Computer UsageYou
need to bring your laptops to lab. TAs in the laboratory are checking
off programs and supervising
while on
duty, thus you can expect to have only brief consultations with them.
You should
learn to develop software while on the computer. This course involves
some
projects that require extended periods of time to complete and a
project cannot
be done just overnight. Get started on an assignment early so you can
get help
if you need it. We expect students to have a
laptop to develop programs at home and debug them in lab. Please help to keep the lab clean.
ECE319K Lab kit
A list of components handed out to students. These parts need not be returned.
Legal
Notes
Accessible/Compliant Statement: If you are a student with a disability, or think you may have a disability, and need accommodations please contact Disability and Access (D&A). You may refer to D&A’s website for contact and more information: http://community.utexas.edu/disability/. If you are already registered with D&A, please deliver your Accommodation Letter to us as early as possible in the semester so we can discuss your approved accommodations.
Accessible, Inclusive, and Compliant Statement: The university is committed to creating an accessible and inclusive learning environment consistent with university policy and federal and state law. Please let me know if you experience any barriers to learning so I can work with you to ensure you have equal opportunity to participate fully in this course.
Religious Holy Days: By UT Austin policy, you must notify the instructor of your pending absence at least fourteen days prior to the date of observance of a religious holy day. If you must miss a class, an examination, a work assignment, or a project in order to observe a religious holy day, we will give you an opportunity to complete the missed work within a reasonable time after the absence.
Electronic mail notification policy: In this course, e-mail will be used as a means of communication with students. You will be responsible for checking your e-mail regularly for class work and announcements. The complete text of the University electronic mail notification policy and instructions for updating your e-mail address are available at https://it.utexas.edu/policies/university-electronic-mail-student-notification-policy.
Use of Canvas and class web site: This course uses the class web page and Canvas to distribute course materials, to communicate and collaborate online, to submit assignments and to post solutions and grades. You will be responsible for checking the class web page and the Canvas course site regularly for class work and announcements. As with all computer systems, there are occasional scheduled downtimes as well as unanticipated disruptions. Notification of disruptions will be posted on the Canvas login page. Scheduled downtimes are not an excuse for late work. However, if there is an unscheduled downtime for a significant period of time, we will make an adjustment if it occurs close to the due date.
Scholastic
Dishonesty
"Faculty in the ECE Department are committed to detecting and responding to all instances of scholastic dishonesty and will pursue cases of scholastic dishonesty in accordance with university policy. Scholastic dishonesty, in all its forms, is a blight on our entire academic community. All parties in our community -- faculty, staff, and students -- are responsible for creating an environment that educates outstanding engineers, and this goal entails excellence in technical skills, self-giving citizenry, an ethical integrity. Industry wants engineers who are competent and fully trustworthy, and both qualities must be developed day by day throughout an entire lifetime. Scholastic dishonesty includes, but is not limited to, cheating, plagiarism, collusion, falsifying academic records, or any act designed to give an unfair academic advantage to the student. The fact that you are in this class as an engineering student is testament to your abilities. Penalties for scholastic dishonesty are severe and can include, but are not limited to, a written reprimand, a zero on the assignment/exam, re-taking the exam in question, an F in the course, or expulsion from the University. Don't jeopardize your career by an act of scholastic dishonesty. Details about academic integrity and what constitutes scholastic dishonesty can be found at the website for the UT Dean of Students Office and the General Information Catalog, Section 11-802."
You are encouraged to study together and to discuss information and concepts with other students. You can give "consulting" help to or receive "consulting" help from such students in oral form. However, this permissible cooperation should never involve one student having possession of a copy of all or part of work done by someone else, in the form of an email, an email attachment file, a portable storage device, or a hard copy. Copying of any part of a program is cheating without explicit reference to its source. We do enter lab assignments turned in by ECE319K students through a plagiarism checker, comparing them to assignments of this and previous semesters. If we find two programs that are copied, there will be a substantial penalty to both students, e.g., failure in the course. Students who cheat on tests or in lab will fail. Prosecution of cases is very traumatic to both the student and instructor. It is appropriate to use software out of the book, class website as long as all copy-pasted software is explicitly referenced. Copy-pasting software from current or past ECE319K students is scholastic dishonesty. Policies concerning the use of other people's software in this class:
A
practical guide to ethics involving software
development for ECE319K/ECE319H labs
Activities you can and should do
Activities you cannot and should not do
University
Honor
Code:
"The core values of the
Abet
material
Three
lecture hours and one laboratory hour
a week for
one semester.
Design Assignments: Labs 4, 7, 8, 9 (1 week each)
Laboratory Projects: Labs 1, 2, 3, 5, and 6
SCH Engineering Topics 3 (Including: 1 SCH of Engineering Design)
Relationship of the Course to ABET EC2000 Program Outcomes:
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a.
An
ability
to apply knowledge of mathematics, science, and engineering |
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b. An ability to design and conduct experiments, as well as to analyze and interpret data |
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c. an ability to design a system, component, or process to meet desired needs within realistic constraints such as economic, environmental, social, political, ethical, health and safety, manufacturability, and sustainability |
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d. An ability to function on multi-disciplinary teams |
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e. An ability to identify, formulate, and solve engineering problems |
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f. An understanding of professional and ethical responsibility |
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g. An ability to communicate effectively |
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h. The broad education necessary to understand the impact of engineering solutions in a global, economic, environmental, and societal context |
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i. A recognition of the need for, and an ability to engage in life-long learning |
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j. A knowledge of contemporary issues |
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k. An ability to use the techniques, skills, and modern engineering tools necessary for engineering practice |
ABET
Criterion 9: Program
Criteria for Electrical Engineering Curriculum Achieved:
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Programs must demonstrate that graduates have a knowledge of: |
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1. Probability and statistics, including applications appropriate to the program name and objectives; |
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2. Mathematics through differential and integral calculus, basic sciences, computer science, and engineering sciences necessary to analyze and design complex electrical and electronic devices, software, and systems containing hardware and software components, as appropriate to program objectives. |
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3. (Electrical) Advanced mathematics, typically including differential equations, linear algebra, complex variables, and discrete mathematics. |
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