Acknowledgements
We express our appreciation to Dr. Samir El-Ghazaly, Department head of
Electrical and Computer Engineering, UTK, for the financial support of this
project and his enthusiastic endorsement.
Our thanks and appreciation also is extended to members of the Electrical
and Computer Engineering Department at the University of North Florida
for the assistance they have given us in setting-up this project. In particular
we thank Dr. G. U. Merckel, Associate Dean and Acting Head of ECE, and
Dr. John Alexander, ECE Department UNF. Mr. Matthew Mahin developed
the board layout and the lcd.c/lcd.h, delay.c/delay.h files. He is an
undergraduate (senior) ECE student at UNF. Also, Mr. Dan Bauerkemper
was instrumental in the logistics of helping to pull the hardware and
software together for the project. He is also a senior in the undergraduate
ECE program at UNF. We greatly appreciate their help.