IL131V Basic Digital Theory with PIC-processor 7.5 credits

• Educational level

  First cycle

• Academic level (A-D)

  B

• Subject area

  Techonology
  

• Grade scale

  P, F

• Course information

• Course page on KTH Social

Learning outcomes

The digital workbench on your own kitchen table!
- With the help from our list of equipment and components, and some freeware programs found on the Internet, you will be able to setup your own digital workbench on your “kitchen table”.
- On the course web you will find material that will give you a basic orientation of the units that could be found on a PIC-processor, and how they work.
- Examples show you how a simple PIC-processor could be programmed with a Hardware-Near dialect of the C-language.
- During the course you solve the laboratory exercises at school with our lab equipment, or at home with what you have of own equipment.
- By individual choosing, and performing, your own programming project, you show that your equipment work, and that you can handle it!

Course main content

Binary numbers and codes. ALU, registers, memory technologies.
A description of the architecture of the chosen processor and its instructions.
Example of programming with assembler and with C.
- Program documentation with structure diagrams.
- I/O-units. Timers, CCP, Comparator, AD-converter.
- A programming project.

This is a quarter-time course, ordinary with one evening every week. The course language is Swedish.  At every occasion theory is mixed with laboratory work.
At two of the occasions it’s mandatory to attend, at other occasions this is optional – the detailed program of the course will help you to decide what’s most efficient for you. If you study from home, you report by mail during the course.

Eligibility

Completed upper secondary education including documented proficiency in Swedish corresponding to Swedish B and English corresponding to English A.Proficiency corresponding to Mathematics D/Mathematics 3c, Physics B/Physics 2 and Chemistry A/Chemistry 1.

Literature

Kursmaterialet säljs vid kursstarten.

Examination

• INLA - Assignment, 1.0 credits, grade scale: P, F
• INLB - Assignment, 1.5 credits, grade scale: P, F
• LABA - Laboratory Works, 1.0 credits, grade scale: P, F
• LABB - Laboratory Works, 1.0 credits, grade scale: P, F
• LABC - Laboratory Works, 1.0 credits, grade scale: P, F
• PROA - Assignment, 2.0 credits, grade scale: P, F

Requirements for final grade

INLA – Hand in theory 1, 1.0 hp, P, F (online on web)
INLB – Hand in theory 2, 1.5 hp, P, F (online on web)
LABA – Laboratory exercises 1, 1.0 hp, P, F (at school or home)
LABB – Laboratory exercises 2, 1.0 hp, P, F (at school)
LABC – Laboratory exercises 3, 1.0 hp, P, F (at school or home)
PROA – Individual programming project with the PIC-processor, 2.0 hp, P, F

Your written report from the programming project, together with the final passed grade, show others what you have done during the course.

Offered by

ICT/Electronic Systems

Contact

William Sandqvist, william@kth.se

Examiner

William Sandqvist <william@kth.se>

Version

Course plan valid from: Spring 11.
Examination information valid from: Spring 09.