PEE222: Writing and Debugging Firmware for Microcontrollers and Peripherals

Learning Objectives:

• Use hardware interrupts to react to external signals
• Interpret the information in a microcontroller datasheet to understand its core functionality
• Modify register values to configure peripherals of the microcontroller
• Use timers to program periodic events or to measure time intervals
• Establish a communication link with external sensors or modules via a serial protocol

Teacher:

Beat Geissmann from Rovenso & Octanis Instruments
MSc. Microengineering (EPFL), Roboticist