Microcontrollers 2

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📋 Course Information

Course Schedule

📅 Weekly topics, lab sessions, and project deadlines

📡 Weekly Lectures

Week 1 — Review of Microcontrollers 1

📑 Embedded systems, Arduino, C++, GPIO, ADC, FSM

Week 1 — C++ Practice Session

💻 10 interactive exercises · Easy → Hard

Week 2 — Interrupts

📑 External interrupts, polling vs ISR, Arduino API, registers

Week 3 — Timers

📑 Timer/Counter architecture, prescalers, CTC, PWM

Week 4 — PWM & Tone Generation

📑 CTC review, Fast PWM Mode 14, duty cycle, piano notes

Week 6 — Timer APIs & PWM Waveform Shaping

📑 TimerOne library, CTC registers, square/triangle/sine PWM, RC filter

Week 7 — Pin Change Interrupts

📑 PCINT groups, registers, ISR, debouncing, direct port access, frequency detection

Week 8 — WiFi Communication with ESP8266 ESP-01

📑 ESP-01 hardware, AT commands, SoftwareSerial, WiFi Chat Terminal, WiFi LED Controller

📝 Assignments

Assignment 1 — Advanced Traffic & Pedestrian Controller

📝 FSM design, non-blocking architecture, NZ standard · Due 19 Mar 2026

🔬 Lab Tasks

Lab 1 — Digital Signal Generation

🔬 PWM waveforms, timer interrupts, ADC frequency control · 6%