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Raspberry Pi Pico Lecture 3 (2025): SPI, Timer peripheral, alarm interrupts

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0:00 – Administrivia
2:45 – Wrapping up the discussion of Blinky
6:35 – Using the debugger to investigate register values
10:15 – Introducing the CMake file
14:00 – Plan for the coming lectures
16:00 – Opening and introducing the timer interrupt DDS example
28:00 – How SPI works
34:15 – MCP4822 DAC datasheet
39:00 – Setting up the GPIO’s
41:00 – Microsecond timer peripheral overview
45:00 – The alarm registers, and other timer peripheral registers
48:30 – Setting up an alarm interrupt

Spring, 2025 lectures from ECE 4760 (Digital Systems Design Using Microcontroller) at Cornell University.

Course site: https://ece4760.github.io
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