• We discussed the class syllabus
• We discussed reviewing papers. Check out this website for guidelines to use
• Review these papers for the next class:  Autonomous vehicle and Simple walking Robot

• Discussed presentations
• Use this PowerPoint template for all presentations.

• Paper Review (CMUcam3 paper)
• Presenter: Adam Harris, Paper: Rapid Prototyping of Small Robots; and Presentation
• (This paper is from the website:  http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~illah/PAPERS/pprk.pdf )

• Class Readings/Notes: Project Management
• Presenter: Genya Fridlyand, Paper: Radar a for a UAV ; and Presentation

• Presenter: Daniel Evans, Paper: A Spoke-Wheel Based Wall-climbing Robot ; and Presentation
• This paper is from: Robotics, Automation and Mechatronics, 2008 IEEE Conference on Publication Date: 21-24 Sept. 2008, pages: 456 - 461

• Class Readings/Notes:  Review of Operating Systems and  MicroC/OS-II
• Presenter: Abhiskek Moghe, Paper: Haptics ; and Presentation

• Extra notes from the day's lecture
• Presenter: Richa Ruikar, Paper: WiMAX ; and Presentation

• Presenter: Ashwin Mendon, Paper: Embedded File System ; and Presentation
• From: Reconfigurable Computing and FPGAs, 2008. ReConFig '08. International Conference on , vol., no., pp.283-288, 3-5 Dec. 2008

• The Presentation on the MSP430 and Stiquito for the TI Developers Conference
• Instructions for downloading the TI430 Tools and Programming the Stiquito board
• TI MSP430 User's Guide
• TI Product Selection Guide
• The Stiquito board schematic
• The Stiquito board layout
• Extra notes from the day's lecture
• Presenter: Priyanka Lingayat, Paper: Wireless control of robots ; and Presentation

• Extra notes from the day's lecture

• Embedded.com:  Football helmets go embedded
• Class Readings/Notes: Latest on the Va Tech Helmet
• The transparencies for Floating Point and Fixed Point Math
• Presenter: Sivaramakrisha Ganesh, Paper: Managing Security in FPGA Based Embedded Systems ; and Presentation
• Presenter: Shilpa Bhave, Paper: Bluetooth ; and Presentation

• Presenter: Vivek Srikantan, Paper: Security in Embedded Systems ; and Presentation

• Presenter: Siddatha Datta, Paper: RC Blast ; and Presentation
• Extra notes from the day's lecture

• Class Readings/Notes: Floating point and fixed point math
• Presenter: Priya Harinara Puthran, Paper: GPS GSM mobile navigator ; and Presentation
• Extra notes from the day's lecture

• Extra notes from the day's lecture

• Extra notes from the day's lecture - please print them off for use during the 3/25 class

• Extra notes from the day's lecture

• Extra notes from the day's lecture

• Class Readings/Notes: Low level notes on FSMs
• Class Readings/Notes: VHDL FSM tutorial
• Class Readings/Notes: VHDL FSM example

• Extra notes from the day's lecture 

• Extra notes from the day's lecture 
• Download debounce.vhd and debounce.sym
• Handed out case study

• Class Readings/Notes: Extra notes from the day's lecture 

4/27/09 - Case Study presentations in class

5/4/09 - Final exam: 3:00 - 6:00pm - New time for Exam 2

Future Readings:

• IEEE Spectrum Article "This Car Runs on Code"
• IEEE Spectrum Article "Software Looks at the Road Ahead to Boost Hybrid-Car Efficiency"
• Electronics Products Article "Choosing a low-power MCU"
• EDN Article "Embedded emulation shortens the mixed-signal-SOC design cycle"