College of Engineering Department of Computer Science and Engineering

Room Number: EB1-005

Lab Director: Dr. Abdul-Rahman Al-Ali

Lab Instructor: Ahmad Al Nabulsi

Course Number: COE 410 Embedded Systems, COE 431 Industrial Computer Systems

Experiments conducted in this lab are mainly concerned with:

• introduction to software and hardware architectures of generic embedded systems
• introduction to the architectures of PIC, Motorola, AVR and Intel Microcontroller development system
• assembly language programming and I/O ports structure
• introduction to Image Craft Compiler using C Programming
• interfacing DIP switches and LED devices with the DRAGON12-Plus board
• interfacing with Seven-Segment Display and Keypad
• interfacing with LCD display
• analog to digital converter (ATD) subsystem: programming and interfacing
• temperature and humidity meter: design, measurement and error analysis
• serial communication and wireless transmission
• timer subsystem and time measurements such as period, pulse-width, duty cycle, etc.
• timers and hardware interrupts: programming and interfacing
• robot navigation projects

Our laboratory has the following equipment, operating systems and software:

• personal computers
• DRAGON12-Plus trainer kit
• HP54603B digital oscilloscopes
• function generators
• digital multimeters and power supplies
• sensors (temperature sensors, humidity sensors, flow rate sensors, pressure sensors etc.,)
• Windows XP Professional
• AsmIDE assembler/downloader software
• Image Craft C-compiler (ICC12), interpreter and downloader software