| Date | Topic | Reading | Handouts | Assignments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 19 | Welcome Intro to Communication | Lecture Notes | ||
| Jan 21 | Data Transmission | Lecture Notes | ||
| Jan 24 | Tranmssion Media | Lecture Notes | ||
| Jan 26 | Signal Encoding | Lecture Notes Lecture Notes Modulation Techniques(first 4min) ASK PSK APSK and QAM Modulation | ||
| Jan 27 | Lab | Propagation Velocity Cable Velocity Factor (Use RG-174 for this lab) Transmission Line Terminations for Digital and RF signals - Intro/Tutorial Video | Lab Demo #1 - Transmission Lines | |
| Jan 28 | AM/FM Analog to Digital Converters | Analog AM/FM Lecture Notes Successive Aprox Excel | ||
| Jan 31 | AM Demo | Lab Demo | ||
| Feb 2 | Serial Communications | Checksum Cyclic Redundancy Check (CRC) | Lecture Notes Lecture Notes | |
| Feb 3 | No Lab (due to weather) | |||
| Feb 4 | No Class (due to weather) | |||
| Feb 7 | Serial (RS-232) Communications | Basics of UART Communication UART Asynchronous Serial (Hackaday) | Lecture Notes | |
| Feb 9 | Serial to/from Parallel Data | Parallel to/from Serial | ||
| Feb 10 | No Lab (faculty meeting) | |||
| Feb 11 | Synchronous Serial Demo/HW | PS2 Keyboard | HW #1 - using the oscilloscope captures you did in class, analyze the outputs to show the bianry (hex) output for the key pressed for both your first and last initial. For each waveform, show the parity bit is correct for the binary patter transmitted. Lastly, calculate the clock frequency of the keyboard. Due (via paper submission) start of next class. | |
| Feb 14 | Go Over HW #1 | |||
| Feb 16 | Lab Discussion Intro to SPI | Class Notes (not including SPI Registers for AVR) | ||
| Feb 17 | Lab (RS-232) | RS-232 Lab - due in one week via paper submission. Download Putty O-Scope Setup 1 O-Scope Setup 2 | ||
| Feb 18 | SPI (cont) | What could go wrong: SPI (Hackaday) SPI Explained (Note code for different uProc) | ||
| Feb 21 - 25 | No Class or Lab - Instructor Ill | |||
| Feb 28 | SPI Cont | Terminology Reexamination | Class Notes (not including SPI Registers for AVR) | |
| Mar 2 | SPI Cont | |||
| Mar 3 | SPI Lab | SPI Lab - Due Wed Mar | ||
| Mar 4 | I2C | Datasheets: I2C Users Manual ADXL345 Data Sheet Pressure Senor Camera | Class Notes Class Notes | |
| Mar 7-11 | Spring Break | |||
| Mar 14 | No Class (work on test) Test #1 | Test #1 - The test is open notes, open book, open references. Suggest printing it out, working the problems then coming back to the page, fill in the answers on line and submitting. The Login is your last name (first letter of your last name is capitalized), the password is the last 4 digits of your U number. Due start of class Wed Mar 16, 2022. | ||
| Mar 16 | I2C Lab Prep | |||
| Mar 17 | I2C Lab | I2C Lab - Due in one week. Please make sure to label each capture as stated in handout. Link to RTC Datasheet | ||
| Mar 18 | Intro to Networking | Class Notes Class Notes | ||
| Mar 21 | Networking (Cont) | Class Notes | ||
| Mar 23 | Lab Prep Meet in ET207 | Install Wireshark, putty and prefered browser on computers in ET207 | ||
| Mar 24 | Static Network | Intro to Networking Lab | ||
| Mar 25 | General Network Discussion | |||
| Mar 28 | ||||
| Mar 30 | DHCP | Lecture Notes | ||
| Mar 31 | Networking Lab | Networking Lab - Due in one week. Since word is not available, you can fill out the doc by hand and then print out and lable the screen captures and attach them to the handout before handing it in. | ||
| Apr 1 | General Network Discussion (Hacking, DoS, etc) | |||
| Apr 4 | DHCP and DNS | Using wireshark to investigate DHCP and DNS. | ||
| Apr 6 | HTTP | HTTP Minilab | ||
| Apr 7 | HTTP and HTML Forms Lab | HTTP Forms Lab | ||
| Apr 8 | MQTT | MQTT Intro Video MQTT Website MQTT Getting Started MQTT Protocol Overview MQTT v3 Protocol Spec Dissecting MQTT Using Wireshark | Lecture Notes | |
| Apr 11 | Industrial Automation Protocols | List of automation protocols | ||
| Apr 13 | Wireless Protocols | RF Wireless World Zigbee Tutorial | ||
| Apr 14 | No Lab today | |||
| Apr 15 | Lab Prep | Install Node-Red and Node-Red Dashboard on lab pc for next week's lab. | ||
| Apr 18 | End of Semester Discussion (Grading Policy, Test #2, MQTT Lab) | |||
| Apr 20 | Very Brief intro to Node-Red | |||
| Apr 21 | Lab (Canceled) | |||
| Apr 22 | More on Node-Red and MQTT (Meet in ET207) | Node-Red Dashboard Tutorial | ||
| Apr 25 | Node-Red (cont) | investigate something in Node-Red that interests you. Be ready to show it to the rest of the class during our next class meeting. | ||
| Apr 27 | Noe-Red (cont) | Show the rest of the class what you discovered about Node-Red. | ||
| Exam Week | Test #2 | Test #2 - The test is open notes, open book, open references. Suggest printing it out (including larger images), working the problems then coming back to the page, fill in the answers on line and submitting. The Login is your last name (first letter of your last name is capitalized), the password is the last 4 digits of your U number. Due Tues May 3 at 11am. | ||