Introduction When I teach microprocessors to students I find it important to have access to good tools like simulators and IDEs. Up until now that hasn’t been the case with RISC-V. Now that RISC-V tools are at a state that puts them on par with equivalent tools for AVR, ARM, x86, MIPS and PIC, I’m […]
Arduino devices are commonplace in Engineering programs. Even if the profs don’t use them, the students do. In Engineering programs, we often need to set up sensor monitoring or motor control systems. If students haven’t worked with these in the first through third years of their programs, they are likely to encounter them in the […]
To allow the UNO to be programmed by the PICKit 4 via the ICSP header (circled in blue, below), we need to cut the reset signal trace that links the ‘328P processor to the USB Bridging chip that is also found on the UNO, the MEGA16U2. There are also two other wires that we won’t […]
[What the project is to achieve, a half to one page. Please describe the educational component of the project.] Home security projects are relatively common for engineering and computer science students. They typically focus on a superficial and limited technical implementation. The objective of this project is to learn how to design a system that […]
I want to spend my sabbatical year re-thinking my perspective on C++ and Assembler and how to teach engineering and computer science material using those two languages. To keep myself focused I’ll need a target application, ideally with hardware. In fact, two applications would be ideal: Controlling chip heat Alarm system The first application would […]
I don’t like Assembler programming. I was forced to use it in 1997 in EE 380 on the Motorola 68000 with Prof NelsonDurdle at the University of Alberta. Ditto, for C++. My C professor, Prof. Martin Mintchev, in EE 445 convinced me that it was bloated and terrible. So, since that time, I’ve been programming in C on […]
this is a work in progress… nothing is finalized and no decision made at this point. Just doing a market survey for now… many people need to be consulted and this will have to be a joint decision… We’ll use an internal (to York) Teams page to flesh out the details. Key characteristics Price. (low […]