Electrical and Computer Engineering
ECEL304 Course Information
1. Lectures
Discuss upcoming lab. Do pre-lab problems and answer questions. No lecture on Week 10.
2. Labs
Lab periods are for instruction and help on the lab works. Students demonstrate working i) pre-lab and
ii) lab work during the lab session. Students work in pairs.
2.1 Lab Schedule
Week 1 Introduction to Real-time Applications
1. Read I. Introduction to Real-time Applications
2. Build and verify the period measurement example
Week 2 UART
Pre-lab
1. Read II. UART (Lab Manual)
2. Build and verify the 2 examples
Lab Work
Section II Exercise: UART Exercise
Week 3 GPIO
Pre-lab
1. Read, build and verify III. GPIO (Lab Manual)
2. Build and verify the examples
Lab Work
Section III Exercise: GPIO Exercise (Exercise 2 optional)
Week 4 PWM
Pre-lab
1. Read, build and verify IV. PWM Terminal Count Interrupt (Lab Manual)
2. Build and verify the examples
Lab Work
Section IV Exercise: Pedestrian Light Controller
Week 5 Timer
Pre-lab
1. Read, build and verify V. Measuring Elapsed Time (Lab Manual)
2. Build and verify the elapsed time measurement example (Free-fall Experiment Optional)
Lab Work
Section V Exercise: Period and Pulse Width Measurement
Week 6 Fan Speed Control
Pre-lab
1. Read VI. Fan Speed Control (Lab Manual)
2. Section VI Exercise CapSense Driving RGB-LEDs and Data Logging
Lab Work
Build and verify VI. Fan Speed Control
Week 7 Sampling Signal and ADC
Pre-lab
1. Read VII. Signal Sampling and ADC (Lab Manual)
Lab Work
Section VII Exercise: Sampling Using ADC
Week 8 Delay Line Using Real-Time Application
Pre-lab
1. Read VIII. Delay Line Using Real-Time Application (Lab Manual)
2. Section VIII Exercise: Signal Generation Using Real-Time Application
Lab Work
Build and verify VIII. Delay Line Using Real-Time Application (Lab Manual)
Week 9 Alarm Detection
Pre-lab
1. Read IX. Alarm Detection (Lab Manual)
2. Get started on the design (complete code not provided)
Lab Work
Build and verify Alarm Detection design
Week 10: Wrap up
2.2 Late and missing work
Work due the end of the lab period.
Later than the end of lab period –25% (i.e., Late score = score * 0.75)
Later than one week 0%
2.3 Lab Attendance
Must attend Week 2 to 9. No attendance taken on Week 1 and Week 10
Attendance counts 16% (2% per lab)
What's required at the lab? Demo working pre-lab and lab work
3. Reports (14%)
Two proof-of-work reports on i) Fan Speed Control and ii) Alarm Detection.
The audience is an engineer. Two co-authors or individual. Report should comprise
1. Design description: What does it do?
2. Narrative on Schematic
3. Narrative on Code (don’t include the code)
4. Results
Report on Fan Speed Control is due on Week 7 and Alarm Detection due Week 10.
4. Grades
4.1 Lab attendance: 8 labs x 2% = 16%
4.2. Lab works: Lab 1: 8% + Lab 2: 8% + Lab 3: 8% + Lab 4: 8% +
Lab 5: 11% + Lab 6: 8% + Lab 7: 8% + Lab 8: 11% = 70%
4.3 Two reports: Report 1: 7 % + Report 2: 7% = 14%
4.4 Grades assignment
A
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A:
B+
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B
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B:
C+
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C
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C:
D+
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D
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F
:
scores ≥ 93%
93% < scores ≤ 88%
88% < scores ≤ 83%
83% < scores ≤ 78%
78% < scores ≤ 73%
73% < scores ≤ 68%
78% < scores ≤ 63%
63% < scores ≤ 58%
58% < scores ≤ 53%
53% < scores ≤ 48%
scores ≤ 48%
4.5 Current Scores
Access to Blackboard learn.dcollege.net
5. Policy
- Attend the registered lab section
- Copying peer's work and plagiarizing (example definition see
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plagiarism) are considered academic dishonesty.
6. Instructors
Prawat Nagvajara, Ph.D. nagvajara@ece.drexel.edu
Bossone 103, 215 895-2378, Office Hours: M 2:30-3:30 W 2-3
Bingyao Huang, M.S., bh492@drexel.edu
Alejandro Trofimoff, M.S., aet57@drexel.edu
Yuqiao Liu, M.S., yl636@drexel.edu
Primary Instructor and secondary instructor
Sec 61 Th 3pm : Huang (Trofimoff)
Sec 62 Th 11am : Trofimoff (Huang)
Sec 63 Th 1pm : Huang (Liu)
Sec 64 W 3pm : Liu (Huang)
Sec 65 Th 9am : Trofimoff (Liu)
Sec 66 W 5pm : Liu (Troffimoff)