Pre-class Assignment

Complete participation questions for 5.1 and 5.2. You can skip 5.1.1 because we haven’t covered syncSMs yet.

Announcements

• Lab 1 is due next Tuesday Feb 7 at 11:15am. Commit code on Github and upload report to Moodle.
  • I have a conflict with lab hours Weds. Feb 1, so I will have lab hours 2pm-4pm Fri. Feb 3 in Singer 221. You can also schedule office hours with me or post on Ed.
• Office hours: by appointment (email me if none of those times work)

Learning Objectives and Outcomes

In this lecture you will:

• listen to a lecture about blocking vs. non-blocking program flow
• program along for several examples implementing examples of non-blocking program flow

By the end of this lecture you should be able to:

• explain how interrupts, timers, PWM and LPMs are all related
• use interrupts to execute a function periodically
• use PWM to control the brightness of an LED
• use a timer (e.g. a debounce timer)

Lecture Content

• How are Interrupts, Timers, PWM, and LPMs all related?
  • Blocking vs. non-blocking
  • Saving power

Code Examples

PWM Example