i haven't been to class in over a week
he asked a question about the senior design presentations, i ripped into james, HARD

lots of microcontrollers in embedded systems
system on a chip (SoC)
much cheaper in the long run
lose some flexibility
ARM architecture most prolific

know gen purpose and special purpose registers
instructions, know groups and generally how to write code

low power modes, clocks available
io periph devices

aclk in @ 32768hz, want 9600bits/sec
T=1/9600 = 104.17us
p = 32768/9600 = 3.41

1 start, 8 data, 1 parity, 2 stop = 12 bits

lots of crap about LCD displays
this is annoying at best, since we don't actually have to know it for the exam