ETEC 141 - Microcontrollers and Sensors

5.0 Credits
Introduction to microcontroller circuits and digital logic. Covers microcontroller programming and control circuits. Through lectures and hands-on labs, students will learn to use microcontroller I/O to work with digital and analog sensros and actuators.
Prerequisite Completion of ETEC 140 with a minimum grade of 2.0 or instructor permission.
Course-level Learning Objectives (CLOs)
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

Analyze and predict the operation of discrete logic gates and their truth tables and complex digitalschematics.
Describe the common components and principle differences betweenCPUand MCU systems and how they are used in industry. Analyze a simple microprocessor program in terms of the control, addresses and data busses.
Demonstrate troubleshooting techniques for discrete logic, CPU, and MCU based systems andtheir peripheral devices using a logic analyzer, oscilloscope, and multimeter.

Course Typically Offered
Spring