Hacettepe University
Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering

Syllabus
 ELE 417  Embedded System Design

Instructor: Prof. Dr. Ali Ziya  Alkar
Office Hours: Friday afternoon 13:00-15:00 2nd floor new EE building office.
e-mail: alkar@hacettepe.edu.tr

Prerequisite: Please take the “test” before considering to take this course! There are also prerequsite(s) for the course.

Attention: There is a quota on the number of people that can take the course due to scarce laboratory resources.
The quota may be expanded during the add drop week. There will be no quota change during the registration week.

References:

The course will be based primarily on slides shown below but we also strongly reecommend:

Introduction to Embedded Systems Using Microcontrollers and the MSP430

Authors: Jiménez, Manuel, Palomera, Rogelio, Couvertier, Isidoro

 
MSP430 Microcontroller Basics - Author(s): John H. Davies Elsevier

 

Some other useful references are:

and many other e-books available online

 

Essentials for the course:
 

Grading: Midterm %20, Labs 30%, Final Grade (Project %30, Final Exam %20) %50
Attempts of cheating in Lab and Homeworks will NOT be TOLERATED. No exceptions.

 

Attendance: Required in ALL course hours and ALL LAB hours. There will be lab hours (3-4 times/14 weeks) apart from course hours.

An attendance to at least 70% of the course is required.

Otherwise you WILL receive an F1 grade for not attending the course which makes you ineligable to take the final exam.

 

Project: You need to complete a challenging project task based on the MSP-EXP430G2ET or MSP-EXP430FR4133 development kit.

So you need to order this kit from necessary resources after Week1 of the course to make it available as soon as possible.

The documentation on the Launchpad is here.

 

In this project you (as a project group) will design your own microcontroller boards for a certain TASK.

PCB manufacturing

MSP430 reference designs

EAGLE PCB design

Wifi module

MSP430G2553

 

PROJECT DETAILS WILL BE UPDATED for 2019!!

 

You may reach some of the video presentations of the designs from previous courses at the web page on this link.

 

 

The following slides will be updated regularly on weekly basis.  

 

Week

 

Estimated
 Dates (2019)

Reference

1

Introduction to Embedded Systems

Oct 10

 MSP430 Student Guide

2

Week2

 Oct 17 Slides presented in class

3

 DEMO LAB @ the conference room

Oct 24

 

MSP 430 board data sheet

4

Week 3

Oct 31

  

5

Week 4

Nov 7

  

6

Lab Session 1

Nov 14

 Lab session1 info updated!

MSP 430
board data sheet

7

Week 5

Nov 21

 

8

MIDTERM

Coverage: Everything that we have seen so far that are in the slides + things we discussed in class

Nov 28

You are allowed to bring 1 (one) A4 sized sheet of paper. You may fill in on both sides of this paper with your "own handwriting" to help you out during the exam.

You need to sign both sides of this paper and we will check this during the exam. No calculators, cell phones, slides, books or any other material is allowed.

9

Lab Session 2

Dec 5

 MSP 430
board data sheet

10

Week 6

Dec 12 MSP 430
board data sheet

11

Lab Session 3

Dec 18

 

12

Week7 

Dec 25

 

13

Lab Session 4

 Jan 2 MSP 430
board data sheet

14

Project Demonstrations

Jan 9

You are reguired to attend all sessions of project demonstrations

Final Day to turn in your project reports.