Monday: 7:40 - 9:55, AD226

Wednesday: 7:40 - 9:55, AD226

PIC Microcontroller Project – Wednesday, November 17, 2010

Assembly Projects / Exam – Wednesday, December 15, 2010

No Class - Monday, September 6

No Class - Wednesday, November 24

Instructor:

David R. Bostain, drbostain@gmail.com

Prerequisites:

COS102 or equivalent experience

Textbooks/Software:

PICkit 2 Starter Kit

Website:

http://cos231.drbco.com/

Student Grade Evaluation:

Labs/Participation

Homework/Quizzes 33%

Projects 33%

Tests/Final Exam 33%

Participation, attendance and punctuality are expected

Approximate Schedule:

August 30 Number Systems / ASCII / Unicode / Binary Arithmetic / Circuits

September 1 Information Representation / IEEE 754 Floating Point Standard

September 6 Holiday

September 8 Test 0 / Transistors

September 13 TTL / Boolean Algebra

September 15 Reduction of Digital Logic / Karnaugh Maps

September 20 Quine-McCluskey

September 22 Digital Components / Implementing Arithmetic

September 27 Test 1 / Sequential Logic and Flip-Flops

September 29 Finite State Machines / Counters

October 4 Test 2 / Tri-State Logic / Registers / Bus Architecture

October 6 SAP1 Lecture

October 11 Test 3 / SAP2 Lecture

October 13 Begin PIC Microcontroller

October 18 PIC Lecture / Lab 1

October 20 PIC Lecture / Lab 2

October 25 PIC Lecture / Lab 3

October 27 PIC Lecture / Lab 4

November 1 PIC Lecture / Lab 5

November 3 PIC Lecture / Lab 6

November 8 Test 4 - PIC Microcontroller Project Assigned

November 10 Project Lab

November 15 Project Lab

November 17 PIC Microcontroller Project Due

November 22 Begin 8086 – Architecture

November 24 Holiday

November 29 8086 Instruction Set 1

December 1 8086 Instruction Set 2

December 6 Test 5 / 8086 - Assembly Project Assigned

December 8 Assembly Project Lab

December 13 TBA

December 15 Assembly Project Due / Final Exam