NOT YET UPDATED FOR FALL 2012

Lab logistics

• You can use the lab machines to do your work, but you do not need to. The CodeWarrior software is freely available and the boards connect using USB. Summary: almost any modern Windows PC suffices for project development. Note: Please install CodeWarrior 10 from the Freescale web site, not from the CDROM in your microcontroller kit. The version on the web is newer and it does not have license manager complications.
• If you use the lab machines, store your work on a USB flash disk rather than on the lab machines. There are two reasons. First, this work may not be there next time you show up at the lab. Second, putting work on these machines makes it easy for others to copy your work, potentially making you complicit in a plagiarism case.

Lab access

• The ECE digital lab, MEB 2265, is open 24/7
• To get into the lab using your UCard, you need one that has the proper RFID chip. This is indicated by the presence of a string starting with 2* on the back side of the card. If you do not have this, you need to go to the UCard office in the Union and get a new card. You must specifically ask for one that lets you access card readers in MEB.
• Once you have a card with the 2* on it, you will need to give the number to the ECE Digital Lab admins, so they can enable access for you.

Microcontroller Kit

Each group should check out one ColdFire kit containing a M52233DEMO board.

You check this board out by signing the loan agreement with the lab administrators. You are responsible for returning this entire kit clean and in working condition. You are responsible for up to $250 in loss or damage fees.

Warnings

• Handled carefully, your boards will last a long time. However, it is not hard to fry or break a board through carelessness. Never drop a board and always touch something grounded before touching it, or anything connected to it.
• It is possible to damage equipment by creating a faulty circuit and then powering it up. If there is any question about whether a circuit is wired up right, ask the TA or John to take a look before powering it up.

How do labs work?

• Some labs periods, you will not have anything to hand in. You are free to attend or not attend these as you see fit. If you show up we'll be there to help.
• Some lab periods, a lab will be due. Labs are always due by the end of the lab period on the due date. Some lab handins will be all paper, for other labs you will submit code or show something to us. In all cases the lab assignment will make it clear what you need to do to finish the lab (if not let me know).
• Most of the time, you will receive a new lab assignment on the same day that the previous one is due. So, during the same lab period in which you hand in one lab, you should look over the next one and ask me and Eli any questions that you have.
• It is not expected that you can finish all labs during the lab periods.
• You should show up at the lab with your lab finished, on the day that it is due. If you do not do this, you take a significant risk of missing the deadline.

Useful links

• M52233DEMO board page at FreeScale, user manual and schematics
• MMA7260Q accelerometer manual
• ColdFire programmers reference -- overall manual for the ColdFire instruction set architecture, not specific to any particular chip (332 pages)
• web page and reference manual (656 pages) for the MCF5223x family of processors, which includes the PCF52233CAF60 chip that is found on the ColdFire boards used in this class
• CodeWarrior assembler reference for ColdFire
• CodeWarrior build tools for ColdFire reference manual
• summary of the ColdFire processor family
• Freescale forums -- you'll need to register to participate here
• main Freescale and ColdFire pages -- contains a ton more information
• tutorial for the Agilent 54645D logic analyzer
• ColdFire on Wikipedia

• site for downloading CodeWarrior for ColdFire V2 -- download the "special edition" version 10.0 (you only need to do this if you want to run the tools on your own machine -- the lab machines already have this installed)
• CFInit, a tool for generating ColdFire initialization code; you are free to use it, but we won't provide any support or help with it

Lab equipment

• M52233DEMO board
• computer with CodeWarrior tools installed
• USB cable
• function generator
• oscilloscope / logic analyzer

• wiring kit OR some 22 AWG solid wire and a wire stripper
• various inexpensive components supporting individual labs:
  • LEDs
  • resistors
  • heat-shrink tubing
• USB flash memory disk (1 GB is easily enough)