Midterm 1 Review

The midterm has not been written; however, I envision a mix of multiple choice (» 15), short answer, and Programming problems.

Material Covered in Midterm 1 (Lecture 01 to 08)

Lecture Worksheets
•      Introduction to Assembly – Simple Programming 01
•      Introduction to Microcontrollers 02
•      AVR Peripherals – including AVR Studio and Simulation From lab material
•      Load-Store Programming 03 Questions on Page 9, Load-Store Worksheet
•      AVR ALU and SREG 04 and Questions on Page 11 of lecture 04
•      Bit and Bit-Test Instructions From lab material
•      AVR Branching and Looping 05 and 06 AVR Branching Solutions and AVR Looping Solutions
•      Quiz 1 Quiz 1 Review – Solutions
•      AVR Subroutine Basics 07
•      ATmega GPIO 08 and Lab material Labs 1 and 2
•      Labs up to and including Lab 2
• Practice Programming Problems

Sample Topics

AVR Assembly: Number Systems, Instruction Types, MCU Instructions, AVR Assembly Files

AVR Microcontroller: Flip-flops and Registers, Microcontroller Architecture, CPU Operation, ISA Registers, Pipeline, Memory Mapped I/O

Load-Store Programming (plus Addressing Modes): Data Transfer Instructions, Addressing Modes, Data Transfer Instruction encoding.

ALU and SREG: ALU Instructions, SREG Bits

Bit and Bit-Test Instructions: Bit and Bit-Test Instructions, Lab

AVR Jumping, Branching, and Looping: Compare and Test Instructions, Control Transfer Instructions, Modification of ISA Registers, Instruction call, rcall, jmp, rjmp encoding, Implementation in assembly of high level programming control transfer and looping instructions, Software Timing Loops, Pipeline Operation

AVR Peripherals – including AVR Studio Assembly and Simulation: From Lab Material

You will be provided with the following

  • Arduino Proto‐Shield Schematic
  • Four (4) pages from the ATmega328P Summary (Atmel Document 8161S)
    • Section 5. Register Summary Pages 10 and 11 (not 8 and 9)
    • Section 6. Instruction Set Summary Pages 12 and 13 (not 14)

You can bring…

  1. One half (½) of the front side of notes. See Syllabus for rules on what may and may not be on your sheet of notes.
  2. 4-function calculator