EE-366: Microcontrollers

Lecture 01
by
Dr. Saud Al-Wasly
 What is a Microcontroller system

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 Course Objectives
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Increase the awareness about microcontrollers and their
application
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Gain knowledge of the internal architecture MCU and its IO
subsystems
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Practice the problem solving approach using
microcontrollers
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Practice embedded system programming in Assembly
and a high-level language (C)
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Use modern embedded tools to program and debug
embedded software
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 Programmable Devices
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ASIC (SP)
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FPGA (GP)
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DSP (ASIP)
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Microcontroller (GP)
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Microprocessor (GP)
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Co-Processor (SP)
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PLC (GP)
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Single-board embedded compute
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General-purpose computer
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 Microprocessor (MP) VS Microcontroller (MCU)
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Intended application (usage, purpose)
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Internal design architecture
– Memory oriented vs IO oriented
– Design complexity and power consumption
– MCU is chip-inclusive while MP is not
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# of instructions: more than ~1,000 / ~35 inst.

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 Drawbacks of Modern MP systems
Dynamic Frequency Scaling

Deep Pipeline

Hardware Prefetcher

Out-of-order Execution

Complex Cache Architecture

Bus Contention

DRAM Access Time

Unregulated Interrupts

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 Common Application of Microcontrollers

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 MCU is intended to integrate with a control circuit

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 Hard Real-time Systems

Aerospace and Aviation

Embedded Medical Devices

Autonomous Machines

https://mars.nasa.gov/gamee-rover/
https://www.pinterest.ca/pin/732397958120919281/
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 What are these boards?

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 LEGO-Friendly Controllers

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 Microchip PIC

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EPROM
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EEPROM
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FLASH

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 Other Popular MCU brands

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 Microchip Software Tools

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 Hardware Tools

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 Hardware Tools

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 Textbook and references
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“PIC Microcontroller and Embedded systems –
Using Assembly and C for PIC18,” Muhammad Ali
Mazidi, Rolin D. McKinlay, and Danny Causey,
Prentice Hall
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“Advanced PIC Microcontroller Projects in C: From
USB to RTOS with the PIC 18F Series “, Dogan
Ibrahim
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“Applying PIC18 Microcontrollers”, Barry B. Brey
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Microchip and Mikroelektronica web sites
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 Grading System

Quizzes 10%
Mid-term 20%
Project 20%
Final 50%

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 EE366 on Google Classroom
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Go to Google Classroom:
– https://classroom.google.com/
– Sign-in with your KAU student email account
– Got to the + sign to add a new class
– Use the code (dee40r7) to join this EE366 class
– Install Google Classroom on your mobile device to
keep up-to-date

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 Course Instructor
Dr. Saud Mohammad Wasly
Office: Building Eng-40A, room 34C44
Email: swasly@kau.edu.sa
Office Hours: Monday & Wednesday from 11:00 AM
to 01:00 PM or by appointments

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