BISON ACADEMY

Courses taught in the

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

North Dakota State University

 

ECE 376: Embedded Systems

Syllabus: Fall 2025

Updated 07/07/2025


Syllabus - HW & Solutions - Best of 376 - Lab Kits - Resources - Comments


Instructor: Jacob Glower:

Contact: jacob.glower@ndsu.edu

Class Times: MWF 1pm ECE 123 (Offerdahl West)

Classes live streamed on Zoom


 

Date

Lecture

Videos

YouTube PlayList

Sample Code

Homework

M

Aug 25

Holiday!

-

Photo of PCB

Soldering (Digikey)

-

Soldering PCB Instructions

Testing your PCB

Installing Software

LCD_Demo (rename to LCD_Demo.hex)

PIC_Flash_Tool (exe)

PIC_Flash_Tool (zip)

HW #1

W

Aug 27

Syllabus

Slide #0

0 Syllabus

FTDI Driver

FTDI Driver (exe)

F

Aug 29

Architecture and Boolean Math

Lecture #1

1 Architecture

Assembler (handout)

 

M

Sep 1

Holiday!

-

 

 

HW #2

W

Sep 3

PIC Assembler

Lecture #2

2 Assembler

Assembler Code (handout)

1234.asm

Add Subtract.asm

F

Sep 5

MPLAB8 & Flow Charts

Lecture #3

3 MPLAB8

CountRB0.asm

Random.asm

BootLoader.zip

M

Sep 8

Binary Inputs & Counters

Lecture #4

4 Binary Inputs

Up.asm

UpDown.asm

HungryHungryHippo.asm

HW #3

W

Sep 10

Binary Outputs & Timing

Lecture #5

5 Binary Outputs

Piano Staircase (FT)

Timing (handout)

Piano0.asm

Piano1.asm

Piano4.asm

F

Sep 12

Binary Outputs: LEDs

Lecture #6

6 LEDs

Flashlight.asm

FlashlightPWM.asm

M

Sep 15

AdaFruit: NeoPixels

Lecture #7

7 NeoPixels

RGB.asm

Rainbow.asm

ColorWheel.asm

Test #1

W

Sep 17

Review

-

Review for Test 1

 

F

Sep 19

Test #1:

Assembler & Digital I/O

 

MPLAB C-Compilers

M

Sep 22

C Programming with Mplab8

Lecture #8

C Programming with MplabX

8 C Prog in MPLAB8

C Prog in MPLABX

1234.c

Count.C

Shift.C

HW #4

W

Sep 24

C & LCD Displays

Lecture #9

9 LCD Displays

LCD_Demo1.C

LCD Clock.c

LCD_PortD.c

F

Sep 26

Keypads in C

Lecture #10

10 Keypads

Keypad.c

Alarm Clock.c

RPN.c

LCD_PortD.c

M

Sep 29

Stepper Motors in C

Lecture #11

11 Stepper Motors

Motor Animations

Stepper1.c

Stepper2.c

Stepper3.c

HW #5

W

Oct 1

NeoPixels and In-Line Assembly

Lecture #12

12 NeoPixels

NeoPixel0.c

NeoPixel1.c

NeoPixel2.c

F

Oct 3

A/D Converters

Lecture #13

13 A/D

Trombone.c

NeoPixel Flashlight.c

Ohm Meter.c

M

Oct 6

Data Collection & Calibration

Lecutre #14

14 Data Collection

Dice.c

Data Logger.c

HW #6

W

Oct 8

Statistics: Chi-Squared Test

Lecture #15

15 Chi Squared

StatTrek

Handout 15

Chi-Squared Table

Loaded Die.c

F

Oct 10

Chi-Squared Examples

Lecture 15b

15b Chi Squared Examples

 

M

Oct 13

Student t-Test with One Population

Lecture #16

 

16 Student t Test

Handout 16

Normal Distribution Table

Student t Table

HW #7

W

Oct 15

Student t-Test with Two Populations

Lecture #16b

16b: t-Test with Two Populations

Handout 16b

F

Oct 17

D/A Converters

Lecture #17

17 D/A

D2A.c

M

Oct 20

-

 

 

 

Test #2

W

Oct 22

Review

-

 

 

F

Oct 24

Test #2:

C Programming & Statistics

 

 

M

Oct 27

Timer 2 Interrupts

Lecture #18

18 Timer 2

Reflex Timer

Interrupts

Timer2.c

HW #8

W

Oct 29

Timer 2 Examples

Lecture #19

19 Timer2 Examples

Deepest Trashcan (FT)

 

T2 Clock.c

T2 Stopwatch.c

T2 Piano.c

T2 Stepper.c

T2 PWM.c

F

Oct 31

Timer 0 Interrupts

Lecture #20

20 Timer 0

Roulette Wheel

Bass and Melody

Reaction Game

T0 Ext.c

T0 Time.c

T0 Freq.c

M

Nov 3

Timer 0123 Interrupts

Lecture #21

21 Timer 0123

Quad.C Demo

Scooby Doo

Quad Copter Motor

Chord.c

Quad.c

Freq.c

Tach.c

PWM.c

HW #9

-

Term Project

W

Nov 5

INT Interrupts

Lecture #22

22 INT

Bottle Bank (FT)

Voting Machine.c

Pulse Width.c

Optical Encoder.c

F

Nov 7

Timer 1 Capture

Lecture #23

23 Capture

Theremin

Capture1.c

Capture2.c

Range.c

M

Nov 10

Timer 1 Compare

Lecture #24

24 Compare

Compare1.c

Compare2.c

HW #10

W

Nov 12

SCI and GPS

Lecture #25

25 SCI and GPS

Monitor.c

F

Nov 14

Filters in the s-Plane

Lecture #26

26 s Filters

 

M

Nov 17

z-Transform

Lecture #27

27 z-Transform

 

HW #11

W

Nov 19

Filters in the z-Plane

Lecture #28

28 z Filters

 

F

Nov 21

FIR Filters

Lecture #29

29 FIR Filters

 

M

Nov 24

Aliasing - Networks

Lecture #30

 

Network1.c

Network2.c

Work on term project

W

Nov 26

Holiday!

-

 

 

F

Nov 28

Holiday!

-

 

 

M

Dec  1

Placing a PIC in stand-alone mode

Low-Power Operation

 

 

Test #3

W

Dec 3

Review

-

 

 

F

Dec 5

Test #3

-

 

 

M

Dec 8

Term Project Demos

-

 

 

HW #1

W

Dec 10

Term Project Demos

-

 

 

F

Dec 12

Review

-

 

 

 

Final Exam

 

 

HW #1