RYERSON  UNIVERSITY
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering


ELE 744: Electronics and Instrumentation.

In the laboratory each student is required to individually implement an embedded controller design. The department has designed a 68HC11 based controller for use in the course. The controller has gone through one revision and is now known as the MPP V2 board.

ELE 744 Electronics and Instrumentation.  An advanced electronics course focussing on the design and analysis of electronic instrumentation, sensors, and signal conversion circuits needed to implement embedded controller intelligence into an industrial or consumer electronic product. Topics include Data Acquisition Circuits such as Analog to Digital Converters, Sample and Hold, Multiplexers, Digital to Analog converters; Temperature, Pressure and Flow Transducers and their electronics; Voltage to  Frequency and Frequency to Voltage converters; Op amp and circuit noise analysis and its effect on signal to noise ratio; instrumentation and isolation amplifiers; Common mode rejection both dc and frequency dependent; and noise reduction in practical circuits. In the laboratory each student is required to individually implement an embedded controller design. At the present time the project requires the measurement and display of temperature, humidity, barometric pressure and wind speed. The students are responsible for designing their interfaces, writing the software, calibrating and measuring the error of their instruments.

     Lect: 3 hrs. / Lab 2 hrs.
     Prerequisites: All required third year courses.
 

Contents

The MPP V2 68HC11 Board

Single board computer based on the 68HC11 CPU.
Features: 32K EPROM
 32K RAM
 Latched 8 bit output port
 8 Bit input port
 Lcd Display
 5 Volt RS232 Driver Chip
 Proto-type area
 Bus Header
 CPU ports brought out to headers

The MPP V2 Board Layout

MPP V2 Board Layout
Scanned image of the bare board

MPP V2 Spec Sheet and Photo, pdf file.
Note! The Ryerson Bookstore is no longer selling the kit, see kit info below.

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Manuals, Software, Data Sheets


MPPV2 Manual, LCD Display and Cable information

Software

          Other Software

T104/107 Lab Resources

All lab computers will run DOS or Linux.
MPP board and Linux:  test.asm instructions and sample all in one.

MPP Board and DOS: See MPPV2 kit manual chapter 2, see pdf file above.
 

Editors, Assemblers, Simulators


GAL Programming Tools

Use PKUNZIP to extract the above ZIPPED files.

PKWARE Inc.

Postscript Viewers for files with .ps extension

Download and install latest version Win32, Win 95, OS2, NT.

PDFDownload Adobe Acrobat Reader.Adobe Web Site

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DATA SHEETS and Reference Manuals

Devices used in the ELE 744 Weather Station:

Devices used on the MPP V2 Board.

Reference Manual:


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Kit Purchasing Information

A kit that includes the un-populated MPP V2 circuit board, parts, and an assembly manual can be purchased from:

 
 












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