Cornell University
ECE 4760
Designing with Microcontrollers
Spring 2009

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• Cornell staff-maintained pages
  • Final Projects and Ideas for Microcontroller projects
  • Mega644 Prototype board and useful parts list
  • Timers on mega644
  • Video Generation with Mega644/GCC.
  • Fixed point math for mega644/GCC
  • DSP on mega644/GCC
  • Serial Peripheral Interface (SPI) Mega644/GCC
  • Real time kernel on Mega644/GCC
  • Debugging the MCU and STK500
  • PCB surface-mount adaptors
  • --- Mega 32 ---
  • GCC Mega32 project examples
  • A/D and D/A Mega32/codevision
  • Speech generation on Mega32/codevision
  • A preemptive, multitasking OS Mega32/Codevision
  • Command line debugger Mega32/codevision
  • --- Assembler projects ---
  • Organizing your programs
  • A simple keyboard monitor
  • RS232 serial communications with AVR

• Cornell student-written pages
  • Wireless Protocol by Meghan Desai
  • Interactive Mega32 debugger by William Goodrich
  • Keypad library by Richard West
  • COMATOS by Ben Greenblatt
  • COMATOS optimizations by Nick Liu
  • Digital Oscilloscope by Reid Gurnee
  • BUG: Hexapod Walker by Nidhi Kalra
  • Mixed Signal AVR simulator by Engin Ipek
  • Slotcar -- A possible ECE476 motor lab by John Stang
  • Wireless ECG by Mathew David Melnyk and Joshua Marc Silbermann
  • Embedded Mega32 webserver by Jeremy Tzeming Tan
  • Wireless Retrieval of Vital Signs via RFID by Daniel Golden
  • Electric field animal presence detector by Catherine Kung
  • Improved webserver code by Eric Mesa and Richard West -- report
  • A MESSAGE PASSING INTERFACE FOR MULTIPROCESSING on Mega32 By Kalim Moghul
  • Zigbee Wireless network By Scott Bingham and Yunfan Donald Zhang
  • Full list of ECE491 and ECE690 projects (includes non-microcontroller projects)

• Atmel Software and Data Sheets
  • STK-500 data sheet
  • STK-500 schematic
  • Atmel 8-bit cpus
  • AVR Instruction Set
  • AT90S1200 data sheet pdf : AT90S4414 data sheet pdf : AT90S 4414/8515 summary data sheet pdf
  • Mega163 data sheet
  • Mega32 full data sheet ; Mega32 summary
  • AVR Dragon

• Atmel MCU design information
  • General information
    • Atmel Application notes
    • AVRFreaks
    • AVR web ring
    • AVR links page.
    • Microcontroller.net
    • AVRlib -- C-Language Function Library for Atmel AVR Processors by Pascal Stang
    • C Tutorial (Stanford)
    • AVRora simulator
    Specific Applications
    • Mignon game kit
    • Microcontrollers in Music HCI Instruction:
    • AVRcam
    • AVR to GameBoy camera
  • Atmel C compiler information
    • CodeVision C vendor
    • GNU Development Environment
    • C Language Reference
    • The new standard C Derek Jones (local copy)
    • Embedded C snippets Bob Stout's math snippets
  • Other languages
    • FORTH compilers
    • pFORTH
    • PFAVR -- An ANS Forth Implementation for the Atmel AVR
    • Forth Interest Group
    • attoBASIC
    • BASIC and C resouirces (Ron Nicholson)BASIC written in C BASIC written in C
    • BASIC written in obfuscated C and another one
    • Pymite -- Python for microcontrollers

• Atmel MCU realtime operating systems
  • Larry Barello's AVR, RTOS and Robotics
  • AVR Minithreads
  • Salvo (Pumpkin Inc)
  • embOS (Segger)
  • NutOS (ethernut)
  • FreeRTOS
  • aOS and the local copy: Experiments with a preemptive, multitasking OS
  • TinyRealTime (local copy of report) and Port to Mega644
• General design information
  • Proverbs and quotations
  • microcontroller.com
  • TDS210 capture code for Matlab (Prof. L. Stanley Durkin, Ohio State) Users guide
  • ASCII codes and VT100 (hyperterm) escape codes
  • Embedded Systems Magazine.
  • Circuit Cellar magazine
  • Nuts and Volts magazine
  • Tom Loredo's Electronics
  • Dick Cappels' Project Pages (LCD, RF and attoBASIC)
  • Alan Parekh's projects
  • www.mikrocontroller.net
  • Beyond Logic
  • How To Write Unmaintainable Code
  • Ganssle Group
    • Embedded Muse
    • Articles on design
    • Debouncing contacts
    • Firmware Standards Manual
    • Watchdog Timers
    • Commenting Firmware
    • How to Become an Embedded Geek
    • Floating Point Approximations
      
      
    Video/LCD
    • Video Chips
    • Using the MC6847 Video Controller (MIT)
    • MC6847 data sheet
    • ELM data sheet
    • NTE879 RGB encoder
    • SAA1101 synch generator
    • LM1881 sync separator (national) and EL1881 synch separator (intersil)
    • TV tutorials
    • Video DVM using the AT90S1200.
    • Video Display
    • STIGLitz fast video by thread integration
    • TinyGL graphics package
    • AVRcamColor video (PIC version, SX version, AVR version)
    • Color LCD
    • Serial LCD (crystalfontz) Serial graphics LCD (MicroEngineering labs)
    • Using graphics LCD (Dincer Aydin)
    • KS0108 Controller and code
      
    Analog, Analog to Digital, and D to A
    • Practical Analog Design (from Circuit Cellar)
    • Single power supply opamp circuits (TI)
    • Linear circuit collection (Linear Technology)
    • Micropower circuts (Linear Technology)
    • Single supply amplifier (EDN)
    • Charlieplexing LEDs, and another
    • Charlieplexing switches
    • Discover Circuits
    • Analog-input circuit serves any microcontroller (EDN magazine12/20/2001)
    • National Semiconductor
      • Document library
      • OpAmps / LowPower opamps
      • WebBench
      Texas Instruments
      • Technical Documents
      • Differential amplifiers
      • OpAmp application notes
      • Circuit simulation software
      Dallas Semiconductor/Maxim
      • EEducation
      • Tutorials
      • Application notes
      • OpAmp design guide (glossy)
    • Field-programmable Analog Arrays (FPAA)
      • Servenger PAM
      • Anadigm FPAA
        
    Math and DSP
    • Numerical Recipes in C
    • Matlab (mathtools.net)
    • Intro to DSP
    • DSP applets
    • DSP on MEGA32
    • Bob Stout's math snippets
    • Fixed Point arithmetic
    • CORDIC (COordinate Rotation DIgital Computer)
    • CRC error detection and code
    • Direct Digital Synthesis (of sinewaves) by Martin Pechanec
    • Direct Digital Synthesis (Jesper)
    • Scale-invariant nonlinear digital filters (EDN, 1/24/2002)
    • Floating Point coprocessor for microcontrollers
    • Walsh/Hadamard transforms
    • Fast Tranforms ( Jörg Arndt)
    • Fast, in-place WHT and in C
    • Fixed Point FFT
    • AVR spectrum analyzer
    • Karplus-Strong string synthesis (matlab simple string, matlab w/input filter)
    • Musical instrument physical modeling and synthesis
    • Physical synthesis
    • Center for computer research in music and acoutics
    • Digital Sound Synthesis
    Speech
    • Sinewave synthesis (Columbia)
    • Linear Predictive Coding (connexions)
    • Speech Synthesis
    • Speech Compression
    • PICtalker
    • Flite: a small, fast speech synthesis engine (CMU)
    • Speech chips
    • Voice recognition module (Sensory Inc)
    • DoubleTalk voice synthesizer (RC systems)
    • TextSpeak (digital Acoustics)
    • FreeTTS (sourceforge)
    • Digital recorder chips (Eletech)
    • VOICEBOX (Imperial College UK, written in matlab)
    • IBM ViaVoice
    • ADPCM (microchip.com)
    • ADPCM (intel)
      
    PID, Motors and servos
    • Comparison of PID Control Algorithms
    • PID Tutorial in Matlab
    • DC motors
    • Motor overview
    • Generate stepper-motor speed profiles in real time
    • Control of Stepping Motors
    • ServoMotor description
    • RC servos
    • RC servos (acroname)
    • Servo timing
    • Piezoelectric motor (New Scale Tech)
    • Tiny motors (Didel)
    Surface Mount Technology
    • PCBs with SMT Components
    • Prototyping with Surface Mount Devices
    • Prototyping SMD (Pegasus Systems
    • SMT Magazine
    Sensors
    • Energy-Aware Wireless Microsensor Networks
    • Validation of a wireless modular monitoring system for structures
    • Sensor Portal
    • Useful Sensors for biology labs
    • LEDs as sensors and more
    • LED multitouch array
    • Human interface projects
    • Freescale (Motorola)
      • E-field sensor -- Beyond Touch Panels
      • accelerometers
      • pressure
      robot sensors
      • Sonar range finder
      • IR range finder
      • flex sensor
      • digital compass
      • Analog Devices
        • capacitance-to-digitall
        • Memes rate gyros and accelerometers
      • Q-touch capacitance sensors
    Mechatronics
    • Mechatronics Resources (Colorado State)
    • Mechatronics, IEEE/ASME Transactions on (For full text, go to Cornell Library links)
    • Mechatronics, Elsevier (full text)
    • Atmel balancing scooter
    • Active Robots
    Biomedical
    • LED plethysmograph
      • Measuring heartrate
      • heart beat
    • Galvanic skin response
      • Computer game using GSR
      • VitaMon
    • Electromyography low cost pulsometer -- Circuit Cellar Magazine #186 January 2006
    USB
    • USB interface (ActiveWire)
    • USB chips (Delcom)
    • MAX3420 (maxim-ic.com)
    • FTDI USB-UART
    • AVR USB firmware Projects using AVRUSB
    TCP/IP
  • Tiny web server (Siteplayer)
  • Embedded web server (GeistTek)
  • uIP Small TCP/IP
  • uIP-AVR
  • NTP server for AVR
  • Web server in a RJ-45 housing (Lantronix)
  • Microchip ENC28J60 single chip ethernet (Datasheet)
  • Mciroship TCP/IP stack
  • WIZnet
  • PicoServ miniature web server
  • Wireless/RF/Radios
  • RF transmitter/receiver and GPS (Laipac)
  • RF trans/rec (Abacom)
  • Tranceivers (Aerocomm)
  • Zigbee proecessor CC2480 (TI)
  • Packet radios and trans/rec (Radiometrix)
  • Radios (Lemos International)
  • Tranceivers (Radiotronix)
  • application notes, wireless 101, antennas
  • LinxRF -- tranceiver by Pascal Stang
  • Digital Radio Mondiale
  • Zarlink low powered implantable tranceiver
  • Near field wireless
    • ECMA-340 and a local copy. This is also ISO/IEC 18092:2004
    • NFC forum
    • Phillips
    Zigbee (IEEE 802.14.5)
  • Zigbee.org
  • Microchip stack for Zigbee protocol
  • AtmelTranceiver (Chipcon)
  • Module (MaxStream)
  • XB24 (GridConnect)
  • Data over power line
    • Insteon
    • X-10
    • homeplug
    Noise Generation
  • Pseudorandom Number Generator
  • linear-feedback-shift registers

• Engineering and society
  • Standards
    • IEEE standards home
    • Standards by technology
    • Standards organizations
    • ISO online
    Ethics
    • IEEE code of ethics
    • Software engineering ethics resources -- Code cases
    • Ethical Issues in Empirical Studies of Software Engineering
    • Engineering Ethics Links
    • Online Ethics Center -- Computers and Software
    • Info ethics
    • Numerical Problems Associated with Ethics Cases
    • Applied Ethics in Professional Practice
    • Engineering Ethics
    • Teaching engineering ethics with case studies
    Safety/security
    • Off the shelve software in medical devices
    • Medical Devices: Therac 25
    • An Investigation of the Therac-25 Accidents
    • We did nothing wrong!
    • Motor Industry Software Relability
    • Safe systems
    • The Ariane 5 explosion and A Bug and a Crash
    • Patriot Missile Failure
    • The sinking of the Sleipner A offshore platform
    • Some disasters caused by numerical errors
    • Crash and burn and more by Jack Ganssle
    • The Case of the Killer Robot
    • Topics in Dependable Embedded Systems
    • Dependable Systems
    • Embedded System Security
    Regulatory Agencies
    • FCC
      • Understanding FCC regs for Low-power, non-licensed, transmitters
      • What is Part 15?
      • Part 15 RF devices
      • PART 18--INDUSTRIAL, SCIENTIFIC, AND MEDICAL
      • Part 68 -- connecting to the telephone system
      OSHA
      • Safety and Health topics
    • FDA
      • Center for Devices and Radiological Health
      • Device Advice
      • Wireless Medical Telemetry -- FCC order
    Intellectual Property
    • GNU public license,
    • List of licenses and OpenSource.org
    • OpenCore including open source
    • Software Freedom Law Center
    • US patent office
    • Cornell Center for Technology Enterprise and Commercialization
    • BitLaw
    • Electronic Frontier - IP online
    • DOJ--cybercrime
    Design (social considerations)
    • The Embedded Muse
      • Software Will fail
      • Embedded design disasters
      Will programmers become obsolete? ( The Blacksmith and the Bookkeeper Part 1), Part 2, Part 3
    • Synthetic Serendipity (IEEE Spectrum, Volume: 41, Issue: 7, Year: July 2004) The Science behind the story
    • Bad Human factors
    • Human Factors in Programming Languages
    • Enabling Technology for Users with Special Needs
    • Human-Computer Interaction
    History of embedded control
    • IBM 1800 process control computer
    • The History of the Microcomputer
    • Computer History Museum
    • A history of the microprocessor
    • Great Microprocessors of the Past and Present
    • Intel mcu comparison
    • Intel 4004 the first microcontroller
      • pages from the 4004 databook
      • more pages
      • ACM SIGARCH Computer Architecture Vol 1, Number 2
      Intel 8008
    • MosTech 6502 (Apple II)
    • Intel 8080
    • Intel 8088 (First IBM PC)
    • Chronology of Personal Computers
    • Events in ECE4760
  • Computer history
    • Computer History Muesum
    • Computer history in ECE
    • Computer history at Cornell
    • Relay Computer
    • TinkerToy computer and a picture
    • Digi-Comp I toy state machine 1963 (current vendor) images,
    • DigiCompII and a Lego version of a marble-logic computer
    • Turing Train Terminal
    • A Unary Multiplier Wrapped in a Turing Machine Wrapped in a Train Set Inside WireWorld
    • Wireworld computer
    • Eniac Museum,
    • Eniac story,
    • Technical Report, ENIAC was announced on Feb 14, 1946
    • Manchester Mark 1 1948
    • Ferranti Mark 1 1951
    • IBM 650 1953
    • Bendix G-15 and computer museum 1958
    • IBM 1620 1959
    • Lego Turing Machine (details)
• Other Courses
  • Stanford EE 281
  • Mech 143 Santa Clara University
  • Mechtronics University of Wisconsin - Madison
    CTEC1630 Computer Systems Design
  • Robotic Systems Labratory, Stanta Clara University
  • ECE 473 - System Design with Microcontrollers Oregon State
    
  • Old Intel Info