ECE 362 Honors Project Review and Useful Sources

Mini-Project Functional Requirements design your own embedded system using the 9S12C32 microcontroller project must operate in a “turn-key” fashion (your code should be stored in the on-chip flash memory and start up directly out of reset) the project should be “stand-alone” (self-contained) make good use of peripherals (ATD, SCI, SPI, TIM, PWM) need 4 utilize on-chip resources (RTI,SRAM, flash memory, etc) Check out the Mini-Project Page

Peripheral Review ATD: Analog-To-Digital Converts analog sensor data to digital form for micro SCI: Serial Communications Interface Enables serial (one bit at a time) exchange of data between microprocessor and other peripherals such as mice, sensors, etc. SPI: Serial Peripheral Interface synchronous serial data link. Operates in full duplex mode. Communicate in Master/Slave mode. TIM: Timer Module PWM: Pulse-Width Modulator Used for Motors, LEDs etc

Places to order components Basic components Newark Digikey Mouser All other needs Sparkfun (good variety of sensors, micros, etc and nice blog support) Sparkfun Octopart - great for comparing prices between vendors Octopart For future reference a nice place for ordering PCBs is SeeedStudio's Fusion PCB service. If turn time isn't critical, it tends to be one of the better deals around.SeeedStudio's Fusion PCB

Forums/Blogs for Project Help/Ideas Dangerous Prototypes (in particular does phenomenal open source work centered around PIC microcontrollers) Dangerous Prototypes Hackaday (tons of project ideas and support on how they were done) Hackaday Dutchforce Electronics forum Decent subreddits EEVblog (decent videos/ equipment use overviews) EEVblog

Altium Licenses Can only be installed on ECE computers at this time Can still put copies on lab computers which you may access remotely