BISON ACADEMY

Courses taught in the

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

North Dakota State University

ECE 376: Embedded Systems

Resources

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

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Reference Material

▪ PIC18F4620 Data Sheets

▪ List of Assembler Instructions

▪ List of Interrupts

Compilers and Serial Port Tools

▪ MPLAB 8.92 (recommended: easier to use than MPLABX)

▪ MPLABX (latest from Microchip)

▪ C-Compiler (the C-compiler we use in this course – .zip file)

▪ C-Compiler (.exe file: you may need to turn off anti-virus to download)

▪ Hyperterminal (old Windows program to access the serial port)

▪ PIC Flash Tool (recommended: utility for downloading the .hex file)

FTDI Driver (from SparkFun)

· FTDI Information

· FTDI Driver

Matlab

▪ Download Matlab (link to NDSU license)

▪ Matlab for Beginners

HP35s Calculator

▪ RPN and Stacks

▪ Complex Numbers

▪ Solving f(x) = 0

▪ Phasor Analysis

Shopping!

▪ Pocket Oscilloscope (ebay)

▪ Powered Breadboard (ebay)

▪ Powered Breadboard (MPJ)

▪ SparkFun (arduino, rasberry pi, etc)

▪ AdaFruit (neopixels, RFID)

▪ LightHouse LEDs (ebay)

Boot Loader (ver June 2018)

▪ Boot Loader Files (C code. Offset = 0x800)

▪ Boot Loader hex file

▪ Instructions for downloading the boot loader

▪ Video instructions for programming a PIC chip with the boot loader