Digital Systems Design Using Microcontrollers

Class Overview

This course focuses on the design of real-time digital systems using microprocessor-based embedded controllers. Students work in pairs to design, debug, and construct several small systems that illustrate and employ the techniques of digital system design acquired in previous courses. The class is primarily laboratory work, and lectures are used for the introduction of examples, description of specific modules to be designed, and instruction in the hardware and high-level design tools to be employed. This is a culminating design experience (CDE) course.

Prerequisites: ECE 3140/CS 3420
Key Topics: Digital Systems, Controllers

Professor: Dr. Van Adams

Semester(s): Spring

Difficulty: 3.5/5

Rating: 4.5/5

Assignments: Weekly labs and a final project. No homework or exams.

Exams: Not specified

Pros

Professor Adams is very passionate and helpful.
Labs are educational, engaging, and fun.

Cons

Labs can become stressful if you fall behind or run into a hard to crack bug.
Lectures are not terribly useful to the labs themselves, yet Adams is passionate about what he is teaching.

Tips for Success

You may/should attend other lab sections in order to finish your check off. Later labs cannot be completed in a single session.