A course of Computer Controlled System Designs for electrical engineering technology students

The author presents a course, Computer Controlled System Designs, for electrical engineering technology students. This course is designed to provide students with fundamental knowledge required for implementing computer-controlled systems and comprehensive realistic design experience in a very inexpensive way. Students learn how to expand a computer controlled system memory spaces and input/output ports. The conversion of differential equations through difference equations to the computer programs is studies. A comparison is also made between an analog and a digital differentiator.<>