Embedded systems are used in commercial, consumer, and residential products. This course will introduce the student to the fundamentals of embedded system design. The architecture of the microcomputers and microcontrollers will be discussed including, memory systems and devices, bus systems, A/D and D/A conversions, serial and parallel communications, timers and counters, interrupts and interfacing to various external devices. Microcontroller board-based modules on the AVR/ARM microcontrollers such as Arduino Uno will be covered. Assembly and C language programming will be used to learn embedded systems development.

This course will provide an introduction to the basic LabVIEW software commands and programming used in data acquisition and control. LabVIEW will be used in conjunction with the National Instruments Educational Laboratory Instrumentation Suite (NI ELVIS). The student will perform experiments that collect and measure electrical signals from various transducers or interface circuitry and then store and process the data on the computer. During the data acquisition process, the output of digital or analog control signals to the interface circuitry will be used to provide feedback for circuit optimization and or adjustments.