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Intro to the class.

Preliminary ideas and the equipment.

L-1 The Oscilloscope

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Basic Electric Theory. Chaps. 1, 2, &3.
Charge, current, voltage, power. Simple components and simple circuits, V-I curves.

L2-Ideas of current, voltage, and resistance-Ohm’s law, the voltage divider.

Measuring resistance, using power supply, verifying Ohm’s law, using voltage divider.

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More theory. Chaps 4 & 5.
Formal theory, multi-resistor systems.

L3-A multi-resistor circuit. Solve problem in class. Build, and see that it all works out.

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Chap. 6. Time varying voltages and currents, phase, slope resistance.

Computer chapter 1-Bit patterns, binary numbers, hex representations.

L4-Time varying measurements--signal generator and oscilloscope. The voltage divider and time-varying voltages of different shapes.

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Chap 7. The capacitor. RC circuits driven by square waves and sine waves.

Chap. 8 Filters.

L5-The capacitor-high and low pass filters.

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Computer chap. 2-
Introduction to microcomputers

Computer chap. 3
Introduction to CodeWarrior

L6-Programming the MC9S08 I.

Meeting CodeWarrior. A first program. Fixing bugs and improving the program.

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Chap 9. Non-linear elements, V-I curves, the diode. (Diode theory and construction.) Rectifier circuits.

Computer Chap. 4
Basic C Programming

L7-Diodes-V-I curve of signal and power diode, voltage divider with a diode, half-wave rectifier, ripple.

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Chap 10. Power Supplies I
Transformers, rectifier circuits-half-wave, full-wave, and bridge rectifiers, capacitive filtering.

L8-Transformers-Step-down transformer, RMS and peak-peak voltage, half-wave and full-wave bridge rectifiers, filter capacitors, ripple, and the effects of load current

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Review PSpice sections in chapters 5, 7 and 8.

L9-Talking to the 9S08.

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Computer Chap. 5
MC9S08 Microcomputers.

L10-Learning PSpice. Simulating passive circuits in software.

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Chap 11. The FET-construction, operation, characteristics. What is an amplifier? What is a switch.

Computer Chap. 6. Conditionals & Loops.

L11-The FET-Characteristic curves, simple amplifier, basic switch.

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Chap 12. FET switches-power switching vs. logic switching. Switching speeds. CMOS switches, current draw of CMOS.

Computer Chap. 7 Digital I/O
Computer Chap. 8 Variables in C

L12- Do-it-yourself traffic lights.

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Chap 13. Digital Logic Theory.
Basic logic gates. Combining logic gates to make more complicated functions. Sum-of-products and product-of-sums design.

L13-FET Switches-N&P channel switches, discrete CMOS switches, integrated CMOS switch.

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Chap 14. Combinatorial functions. Encoders, decoders, multiplexers, demultiplexers, arithmetic etc.

L14-Logic gates-nand, nor, and not gates, simple combinatorial circuits, decoders and LED output.

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Computer Chap. 9
Useful subroutines.

L15-More Digital IO with the HC9S08 Interfacing 7-segment LEDs

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Chap 15-Programmable Logic

L16- Programmable Logic

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Chap 16 §§1-6. Sequential circuits. Feedback, flip-flops, memory, latches

L17- Flip-flops & latches

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Computer chap. 10
Serial communications.

L18-serial communication-looking at serial signals, programming the SCI

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Chapter 16§§7-8. Ripple counters and a bestiary of available circuits.

L19- Ripple counters

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Chap 17. Counters and synchronous logic. How to design your own synchronous circuits.

L20- Synchronous Counters I

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L21-Pulse Width Modulation: Steps Towards a Robot.

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L22- Synchronous Counters II

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 Chap. 19-Amplifiers

L23-FET Amplifiers

Spring Break

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Chap. 21. Operational Amplifiers I -ideal op-amps, golden rules, basic circuits

L25-Op-amp I-inverting amp, non-inverting amp, unity gain buffer

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Chap 22. Op-Amps II-real op amps. Characteristics of real op-amps and what to do about them.

L26-Op-amp II-Op-amp bandwidth, input bias current, offset voltage

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L27-A Self-Contained Robot 1: Roll robots roll!

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L28-Op-Amps III-slew-rate limiting, using a faster op-amp.

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 L29-Op-Amps IV-op-amp w/ power booster, build a simple audio amp

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L30-A Self-Contained Robot II: Free the robots--figure eights and wall detection

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Chap. 27-Power supplies II. Voltage and current regulated power supplies. Multi-component and 3-terminal solutions.

L31-Voltage regulators-op-amp and pass transistor, (add current limit), three-terminal regulators

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 Chapter 23. Positive Feedback: Comparators
Op-amp comparator, Hysteresis, and commercial comparator chips.

L32-Comparators. Op-amps with positive feedback, hysteresis, the LM311 comparator.

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Chapter 25. Oscillators

L33-Oscillators

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Chap. 28. Digital-to-analog

L34-digital-to-analogue - switches & resistors, logic control, R-2R ladder, digital ramp generator

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L35-DAC interface to computer, ramp generator, sine generator

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Chap 29. Analog-to-digital

L36-Analogue-to-digital—DAC, comparator, and 9S08, linear search

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Computer Chapter MC9S08 Analog to Digital Converter

L37-9S08 ADC block, interfacing

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L38-A Self-Contained Robot 3: Seeking the light

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 Hope for new chapters on timers and interrupts

L39-A Self-Contained Robot 3—Interrupts, Timers, & PWM: How to walk and chew gum at the same time.

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Projects

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Projects

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Projects

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Projects

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Projects

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Final Projects due at 5pm!!!