Opinto-opas

Osaamistavoitteet

The student understands the basic concepts of microprocessors and microcontrollers. He/she knows the basic h/w blocks, can write a simple program in C- or assembler language and load and run it in development platform. The student is acquainted with the interface concepts and can utilize Atmel Studio IDE to develop, load and run elementary programs.

Sisältö

1. Introduction to microprocessor
Microprocessor systems and bus organization
Microprocessor architecture & operations
Memory, I/O devices, memory and I/O operations

2. Buses, memory and interfacing
Address, data and control buses
Pin functions
Demultiplexing of buses
Generation of control signals
Instruction cycle, machine cycles, t-states
Memory interfacing

3. Atmel AVR microcontroller
Difference between microprocessor and microcontroller
Atmel AVR features and internal architecture overview
Memory map
Peripherals
Instruction set
Interrupt and timing subsystems

4. Programming AVR
Atmel Studio fundamentals
AVR registers
GPIO, digital & analog input, output, pull-up, tri state
Interrupts

5. Internal and external memories
Flash and eeprom
Internal ram, memory blocks
Utilizing external memory

Oppimateriaalit

Lecture material and links to various web based tutorials. AVR, development platform and Atmel Studio manuals as well as component data sheets.