CEC Semester Eight 2015

A simple example design is used in this class to demonstrate the use of the processor oriented tools in the Vivado tool suite. The on-chip processor will be configured and some simple code will be used to demonstrate how to go from an idea to a...

FPGAs with embedded processors are powerful devices, but can be complicated to design with. This class will introduce some example SoC FPGAs, the typical design flow, target applications and resources available to speed YOUR design.

This final session is a continuation of the Raspibot board discussion. We'll take a look at how to create awesome visual displays using an LED matrix cube. A discussion of the cube's construction and attaching it to the Raspibot will be presented...

The Raspibot board is an accessory controller that allows control of DC and stepper motors, LED matrices and LCDs, allowing basic mobile robots and electronic controllers to be built quite easily (uses the RRB library dev'd by Simon Monk). We'll...

The Python library used in connecting the platform to the physical world for electronic controls is the RPi.GPIO code. In this session we'll investigate the RPi's GPIO (General Input Output) pins and how to enable them with the RPi.GPIO library...

This session will include a discussion on Python, the purpose of the interpretive programming language, and the inventor who created it. A review of the Python IDLE (Integrated DeveLopment Environment) will be provided in this session. The...

The Raspberry Pi is a user-friendly, credit-card-size, Linux-based computer that design engineers (and educators and Makers) can use as a rapid development platform to design products for the consumer and industrial markets. An overview of the...

Just what is ARM (the company and the product)? In this lecture we will look at what ARM is, where it came from and give an overview of the various families of products available and their areas of application.