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		HW1, due Thursday 8/27
	8/26	Embedded C Programming Basics I	In-class exercise 1	HW2, due Sunday 9/6
	8/28	Embedded C Programming Basics II	Quiz 1 on numbers
Week 2	8/31
	9/2
	9/4
Week 3	9/7
	9/9
	9/11
Week 4	9/14
	9/16
	9/18
Week 5	9/21
	9/23
	9/25
Week 6	9/28
	9/31
	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