16-878 Advanced Mechatronic Design

12 units, Carnegie Mellon University

This course is designed for students who have a background in mechatronics by having taken a mechatronics design course or through practice. The course will be a combination of laboratories and lectures and will culminate in a class project. The topics covered will be microcontroller hardware subsystems: timer systems, PWM, interrupts; analog circuits, operational amplifiers, comparators, signal conditioning, interfacing to sensors, actuator characteristics and interfacing; C language features for embedded software, register level programming, hardware abstraction layers, event driven programming, state machines, state charts.

Prerequisites: none listed

Offered: Fall 2026, Fall 2025

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