INEL 4206 - Microprocessors

Spring 2022

UPR - ECE - M. Toledo

Office S409 - Office Hours: : see http://ece.uprm.edu/~mtoledo

• Description: Architecture, organization and operation of microprocessors and their supporting devices; design of microprocessor-based systems.
• Pre-requisites: INEL 4205 and INEL 4201.
• Primary objectives of course: The course is designed to introduce students to the architecture, operation, programming, and basic interfacing of embedded systems. The course also includes the study of the microprocessor instruction set and the use assembly language programming for the MSP430 micro-controllers as hands-on example.
• Textbook: Jimenez, M., Palomera, R., and Couvertier, I. Introduction to Embedded Systems: Using Systems: Using Microcontrollers and the MSP430, Springer, 2014

• Additional information
  • The Final exam will cover all the course topics’ and will be optional. If taken, the final exam’s grade will replace the lowest partial exam grade.
    
  • The course is expected to be presential. This modality allows for up to 25% of the lectures to take place on-line. Presentations and other material will be available on UPR's Moodle platform. However, due to the emergency caused by the pandemic, the university administration can decide to change the modality of the course.
  • Students are responsible for watching all course lectures and studying the corresponding material.
  • The attendance grade will be calculated weekly, using the percentage of activities that are marked as completed on UPR's Moodle platform.

According to Law 51

• Students will identify themselves with the Institution and the instructor of the course for purposes of assessment (exams) accommodations. For more information please call the Student with Disabilities Office which is part of the Dean of Students office (Chemistry Building, room 019) at (787)265-3862 or (787)832-4040 extensions 3250 or 3258.

RESOURCES

• Links to recorded Lectures will be available on UPR's Moodle platform.
• The course will be based on the Launchpad with MSP430FR2433 MCU
  • Out of the box demo
  • Board tour
  • Can be purchased from Texas Instruments and also from other suppliers such as Mouser
  • Can be programmed with Code Composer Studio (CCS)
    • CCS download page
    • CCSv8 Getting started (video)
    • CCS Users Guide
  • MSP430 instruction set: summary and description
  • Device data sheet
• On the web
  • Half-precision floating point wikipedia page. Also see the half-precision float calculator.
  • What is a uC
  • Getting started with the MSP430G2553 Launchpad Workshop
    • Part 1: Introduction
    • Part 2: Using CCS
  • 25 functions for 25 cents
  • IAR Embedded Workbench Info
  • Textbook's web page and lab manual
  • MSP430 App. Reports
  • MSP430 IAR Assembler Reference Guide