Updated - August 17, 2001

Tentative Syllabus

ICS 491 - Programming Microcontroller Applications with Sensors and Motors

• Classes - Twice a week (Tuesday & Thursday, 9:00 - 10:15 am)
• Office - Post 306B
• Phone - 956-6493
• Email - cikehara@hawaii.edu
• Web - http://www2.hawaii.edu/~cikehara/

Prerequisite:

• ICS 312, ICS 331 or instructor consent
• Before attending first class please review ICS 312 and ICS 331 material.

Objectives:

• To review basics of electronic circuits, signal processing and microprocessors
• To learn about microcontrollers, analog to digital converters and digital to analog converters
• To acquaint students with a variety sensors and actuators (e.g., motors, relays, etc) and their operational characteristics and interfacing
• To wire and program a microcontroller to input sensor data, process the data and produce an output signal

Textbook - none

Material

• $60 - 80 in electronics components (some parts from ICS 331 used)

Access to PC with windows, serial port necessary for homework projects (DB9 connector) and 10Mbyte of disk space

Tentative grading scheme (A= 100-90%, B = 89-80%, C = 79-70%, ....)

• 50% classroom and take home exercises
• 25% midterm
• 25% final