Electrical and Computer Engineering

ECE 121 Microcontroller System Design

Focus is on the design and use of microcontroller-based embedded systems, specifically addressing issues of low-level functionality, direct manipulation of input/output using various specialized peripheral sets, and multiple communications protocols. Covers timers, Input Capture, Output Compare, ADC, PWM, interrupts, bus and memory organization, DMA, SPI, I2C, device driver programming, serial packet communication, and clocking. Students enrolled in this class learn how to use the C programming language to solve engineering problems.

Requirements

Prerequisite(s): CSE 12; and ECE 13 or CSE 13E. Concurrent enrollment in ECE 101 and ECE 101L is required.

Credits

7

Quarter offered

Winter

Instructor

The Staff, Stephen Petersen