Topics to be covered:

Lab exercises:

1

• Basic components
• Microprocessors, Microcomputers, Microcontrollers
• Applications
• The 8051 family of microcontrollers
• Block diagram, memory
• Internal registers
• Parallel I/O ports
• System clock
• Serial port
• Timers
• Interrupts

The 8051 Assembly Language
Text: Section 2.10-2.15

• Data transfer instructions
• Address modes

• Learn the components of the development board setup
• Learn the project manager and debug windows of the IDE
• Create a project, add a file, configure IDE, compile, build, download, run.
• Intermediate files: List file, object code file
• Using the debug tools.
• Registers and memory.   
• Assembler directives - cseg, rseg, equ, end  

Miscellaneous

Assembly Language Programming

• Using register banks and immediate mode  (reg_banks.asm)
• Accessing SPRs and RAM  (ram_write.asm)
• Include files  
• Register indexed addressing - lookup tables  (table1.asm, table2.asm)
• Stacks  (stacks.asm)
• Bit oriented data transfer and I/O Port configuration (ports.asm)

2

• Data processing instructions
• Arithmetic Instructions
• Logic Instructions

• Program flow instructions
• Subroutines
• Interrupts

• A program template
• Multi-byte addition  (adder.asm)
• Multiplication  (multiply.asm)
• Logic operations - part 1 (logic1.asm)

• Logic operations - part 2 ( logic2.asm)
• Conditional jumps - loops and decision trees (toggle.asm) (blink5.asm)
• Subroutines - call and return (blink_off.asm)
• Interrupts  (blink_on.asm)

3

• System clock
• Pipelined CPU
• Software delays
• Timers

• On-chip "External" RAM
• Digital to Analog Conversion

• Timers - creating periodic events (timer1.asm) (timer2.asm) (timer3.asm)

• Config tool
• Timers - timing events (timing_0.asm)
• Block memory move (block_move.asm)
• Digital to Analog Conversion  (dac0.asm)

4

• Analog to Digital Conversion
• Temperature Sensor
• Additional Timer functions
• Programmable Counter Array

• Analog to Digital Conversion  (adc0.asm)
• Temperature Sensor

• Parallel I/O and table look-up: Display driver  (report)

Midterm Exam  - Thursday, April 27 (see Blackboard for Old Exam)

5

• C for microcontrollers
• Review of C basics
• Compilation process for Cygnal
• C Extensions
• In-line assembly
• Interfacing with C

• Toggle and Blink  (toggle.c, blink5.c)
• Revisit timer exercise (timer3.c)
• Interfacing - DAC0  (dac0.c)
• Converting to real units  (Temp_conv.c)

6

• C examples
• Pointers and Arrays
• Revisit I/O ports
• Functions

• Arrays  (array.c)
• I/O Port Circuit (print)
• Keypad interface  (keypad.c)

• Header files
• Multitasking and multiprogramming

• Synchronization methods
• Performance metrics
• Hardware interface issues
• Control block diagrams
• Actuators, plant, sensors

Other C8051F020 Subsystems

• Serial Transmission, UARTs
• System Management Bus

• Timed polling - keypad limits  (keypad_sync.c)
• Timed polling - take 2 (keypad_pp.c)

• Control of Digital Potentiometer using I2C ( I2C_pot.c )

• Serial Peripheral Interface Bus
• UART - Asynchronous modes
• Review PCA, output compare 
• Review PCA PWM

(continued from "Embedded Microcontroller Systems")

• Open loop, closed loop control
• Bang-bang and incremental controllers
• PID controllers

•  Asynchronous Serial Communication (serial.c)
•   Frequency output (frequency1.c)
•   Pulse Width Modulation (frequency2.c)
•  Motor control - prelab

Project

• Review PCA input capture
• Comparators

• Pulse Width Modulation (continued)
• Frequency measurement
• Project work

Project Presentations and Demos

Masters Project Presentation

• Digital Position Controller Multidisciplinary Laboratory (report)
• Project work

Project Demos and Report

Final Exam Topic Outline