CE351 Microcontrollers, f2026
Syllabus
Skyboard schematic
Skyboard layout
The ASCII table
ATMEGA2560 datasheet
Pin map
Skyboard design files
Lecture Time/Location: 10:10 am - 11:05 am in SFH750
Dr. Li's office hours: Tuesday 9-11 am and 2:30-3:30 pm; Wednesday & Friday 1:30-3:00 pm.
Acknowledgement:
The development of the Arduino ATMEGA2560 Skyboard and its associated labs was inspired by the ENGR383 Embedded Systems course in the Electrical Engineering department at the Colorado School of Mines. The original labs were created using the PIC MCU by Dr. Chris Coulston and his colleagues. I adjuncted there in Fall 2024 during my sabbatical and decided to re-develop the labs using the Arduino ATMEGA2560 MCU. Undergraduate student Kaifeng Liu developed the Skyboard v2 and most of the code during summer 2025 under an internship sponsored by NSF STROBE.

Weeks	Dates	Lectures	Notes	Homework
Week 1	8/24	Introduction to the course, 2's complement, number systems, data types, operators, ASCII, masks, shifts video, notes		HW1, due Thursday 8/27
	8/26	Embedded C Programming Basics I video	Inclass 1	HW2, due Sunday 9/6
	8/28	Embedded C Programming Basics II video	Quiz 1 on numbers
Week 2	8/31	Skyboard assembly video
	9/2	Skyboard assembly
	9/4	Skyboard assembly
Week 3	9/7	Tutorial 1: Time Delay and the Morse Code video	Inclass 2	HW3: Complete tasks in Tutorial 1 due Sunday 9/13
	9/9	Time Delay and the Morse Code (Work in BH610)
	9/11	Tutorial 2: Timers in ATMEGA2560 video	Quiz 2 on C programming, study the in-class exercise on C programming Inclass 3 on Timers	HW4: Complete tasks in Tutorial 2 due Sunday 9/20
Week 4	9/14	More on Timers and play a song with the Skyboard
	9/16	Play a song with the Skyboard	Quiz 3 on Timers
	9/18	Tutorial 3: More on timers, overflow interrupts, and a music box game	Inclass 4	HW5: Complete tasks in Tutorial 3 due Wednesday 9/30
Week 5	9/21	No lecture, traveling to a grant meeting
	9/23	No lecture, traveling to a grant meeting
	9/25	More on the music box, TIMER1/TIMER3 ISR, state diagrams, typedef, enum{}	Inclass 5
Week 6	9/28
	9/30
	10/2
Week 7	10/5
	10/7
	10/9
Week 8	10/12
	10/14
	10/16
Week 9	10/19
	10/21
	10/23
Week 10	10/26
	10/28
	10/30
Week 11	11/2
	11/4
	11/6
Week 12	11/9
	11/11
	11/13
Week 13	11/16
	11/18
	11/20
Week 14	11/23
	11/25
	11/27
Week 15	11/30
	12/2
	12/4
Week 16	12/9 Wednesday	Final exam: 9:45 - 11:45 am