Week

Lab

Task

8/26-28

Set up

Download and install CCS. Bring laptop and LaunchPad to lab.

9/2-4

Lab Demo

9/9-11

Lab 1

Introduction to Cortex M0+, written in assembly (each student does Lab 1 themselves) 

9/16-18

Lab 2

Interfacing a switch and LED in assembly (each student does Lab 2 themselves)  

9/23-25

Lab 3

Introduction to C, debugging dump, written in C (each student does Lab 3 themselves)  

9/30-10/2

No Lab

Exam 1

10/7-9

Lab 4

Traffic Light, FSMs, written in C (groups of two)

10/14-16

Lab 5

Digital Piano using a 5-bit DAC, written in C (groups of two)

10/21-23

10/28-30

No Lab

Exam 2

11/4-6

Lab 7

Real-time position monitor, ADC, interrupts, LCD, mixture of assembly and C (groups of two)

11/11-13

Lab 8

Distributed DAS, serial port interrupts, FIFO queue, mixture of assembly and C (groups of two)

11/18-19

 Work on Lab 9  

12/2-4

Lab 9

In class, Game design competition, written in C (groups of two);