Study of a state of the art microcontroller and related families. Evaluation board hardware preparation and checkout. PC to board interfaces. Assembler and C-compiler. Configuration registers for code and program protection. On-chip memories. Serial peripheral interface and parallel I/O routines. A/D converter, real-time interrupts and timer applications. A series of three group projects are required leading up to a final stand-alone project. Prerequisite: EL-262 or microcomputer, micro-assembly background. (2-2-3)