Hacettepe University - BBM 432 & 434

Staff

Instructor

Teaching Assistant

Course Overview

This course provides a hands-on introduction to embedded systems. To teach fundamentals of embedded systems, we will focus on the ARM architecture and develop applications using a Texas Instruments ARM development kit.

This course is initially based on the EDX course Embedded Systems - Shape The World by Jonathan Valvano.

Class Hours

BBM 432: Friday 09:15 - 11:50
BBM 434 Sec 1: Friday 15:00 - 17:00
BBM 434 Sec 2: Friday 13:45 - 15:00

Course Topics

Number systems, basic electronics (switches, LED, resistors)
General purpose input output
UART
Interrupts
Digital-to-analog conversion
Analog-to-digital conversion

Course Slides

You can download the course slides from the course Piazza Page

Textbook

Valvano, J. Embedded Systems: Introduction to ARM Cortex-M Microcontrollers, 2016, ISBN: 978-1477508992

There is also an ebook:
http://users.ece.utexas.edu/%7Evalvano/Volume1/E-Book/

Course slides, assignments and Q&A are available on Piazza. Please register as soon as possible.

Piazza Page

Course Work and Exams

Exams
A midterm and a final exam.

Quizzes
I will give ungraded online quizzes which will be used for attendance. The quizzes start at 9:15 at the beginning of lectures, so prepare accordingly.

Labs
There will be 8 lab assignments.

Term project
Your team will develop a term project.

Attendance Policy and Quizzes

Attendance is mandatory. I will give ungraded online quizzes which will be used for attendance. If a student does not attend 5 quizzes, s/he will automatically fail with an F1 grade. The quizzes start at 9:15 at the beginning of lectures, so prepare accordingly.

Grading

BBM 432:
%50 Midterm
%50 Final
Ungraded Online Quizzes

BBM 434:
Labs: %60 (9 Labs)
Project (Counted as the Final): %40

Lab Information

You will work in teams of two. Team members should be in the same lab section.
Your temmate cannot be changed during the semester and you are not allowed to work alone.

Each team has to have a laptop computer and has to purchase the following equipment.
All equipment costs around 150-200 TL per group (75-100 TL per student). If you find cheaper resources let me know.

Lab Equipent You Need to Obtain

1) Texas Instruments Tiva™ C Series EK-TM4C123GXL
https://www.robolinkmarket.com/tm4c123gxl-tiva-c-series-launchpad.html
https://www.ti.com/tool/EK-TM4C123GXL

2) Nokia 5110 LCD Display
Many sources available. Some are below:
http://www.robotkutusu.com/Nokia-5110-LCD-Ekran,PR-18.html
http://www.elektrovadi.com/NOKIA-5110-LCD,PR-1276.html
http://www.domirobot.com/nokia-5110-84x48-lcd-modul-mavi-arkaisik-pmu1197

3) ESP8266 WiFi Module

4) Other small equipments for the lab and their quantities:
1    Solderless breadboard + wires
2    Green LED 1.8V 2mA 5mm
2    Red LED 1.8V 2mA 5mm
2    Yellow LED 1.8V 2mA 5mm
6    Carbon 1/4W resistor, 5%, 470
1    Carbon 1/4W resistor, 5%, 1.0k
3    Carbon 1/4W resistor, 5%, 1.5k
3    Carbon 1/4W resistor, 5%, 12k
4    Carbon 1/4W resistor, 5%, 10k
4    B3F tactile push button switch
1    Stereo Jack 3pin 3.5mm
1    Slide Potentiometers 15mm (or any other 10K potentiometer)

You must buy the kit for the first lab (3rd week). Order as soon as possible. Each group must have their own laptop computer.

Lab Downloads

Lab Schedule (tentative)

Week		Resources
1	Introduction	Intro Lab Slides
2	Deadline for forming lab groups	Click to form a lab group
3	Lab 1	Instructions
4	Lab 2	Instructions
5	Lab 3	Instructions
6	Midterm	Old Exams
7	Lab 4 + Project proposal	Instructions
8	Lab 5	Instructions
9	Lab 6	Instructions
10	Lab 7	Instructions
11	Lab 8
12	Project progress assessment
13	Project progress assessment
14	Project progress assessment