What's New? ECE Department Assembly Language Practice (The Yellow Book) New HCS12 Chapters Old New Items
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Instructor - F.M. Cady	e-mail: fcady(aatt_sign)ece.montana.edu
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ECE Department Assembly Language Practice

Axiom Board Documentation

• CME-12B/BC Development Board Manual
• CME12B_BC32csh1.pdf Schematic Page 1
• CME12B_BC32csh2.pdf Schematic Page 2

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  New CHS12 Chapters

  • HCS12 Parallel I/O
  • Timer Chapter
    • Basic Timer and Timer Overflows
    • Output Compare
    • Input Capture, Pulse Accumulator, RTI
    • Pulse Width Modulation
  • Serial I/O
    • SCI
    • SPI
  • Analog-to-Digital Converter

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  Source files for sample programs in the text.

  Click on the following links to download the zipped files:

  • PFE.zip: PFE Programmer's File Editor
  • Chapter Files
  • Go back

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  Please send me email to let me know if this web information is useful or not. Thanks.

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  Software Engineering Jobs I recently talked with a Motorola engineer who told me that Motorola has about 10,000 software engineers, with a turnover of about 10% per year. ( I don't know what they do, perhaps go to other jobs in Motorola or elsewhere.) This means they hire about 1,000 software engineers each year plus they require about 2,000 more in the next year!

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  Other Good Stuff

  ECE Department Assembly Language Practice (The Yellow Book)
  A Few Stats
  Snippets of code for embedded systems
  The Embedded Muse - Fun thoughts on embedded systems
  

  Some great articles by Jack Ganssle:

  • The Ganssle Group Home Page
  • A Firmware Development Standard
  • Watchdog Timers
  • A Guide to Commenting
  • A Guide to Code Inspections
  • How to become an embedded geek"
  • Better resumes for technical people
  • A Guide to Debouncing -- (Local Copy)
  • Software Test Plan
  Troubleshooters.com - Great info on troubleshooting
  COMMUNICATIONS!
  Subscribe to the EE 371 List Server
  

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  A Few Statistics about Embedded Systems

  • Every PC, Macintosh, engineering workstation, Cray supercomputer and all other general purpose computers account for less than 1% of all microprocessors sold worldwide.
  • Your average car has about 15 microprocessors.
  • The 1999 BMW 7-series has 65.
  • There's one micro in each headlight of a new Lexus, BMW or Mercedes. Plus one in each rear-view mirror.
  • The Volvo S70 has two CAN buses. The transmission talks to the mirrors so they can tilt down when you put the car in reverse.
  • In 1998:
    • 250 million 32-bit embedded microprocessors sold plus
    • >1 billion 16-bit plus
    • >1 billion 8-bit plus
    • >1 billion 4-bitters.
  Source: May 1999 Embedded Systems Programming

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