ELEC-4601: Microprocessor Systems

Fall 2011

28 NOV 2011: Do Assignmnet 2 for Dec 6.
Final-exam preparation session: Friday, Dec 9, 9:30-11 am, ME-4499
Assignments are not accepted after Dec 8, because its problems will be solved in the final review

10 Nov 2011: Bring back your midterms for remarking.

3 Nov 2011: Check your marks down.

27 Oct 2011: Read Lab3 instruction and tutorial, and do the prelab.

Note: Please return all lab manuals and get your deposit.
Online links for manuals are provided and
Manual copies will be in lab for browsing.

Instructor

        Maitham Shams
        Office Hours: Tuesdays and Thursdays 11:30 am to 1:00 pm.
        Room: 4156 ME, Phone: 520-5768, Email: shams@doe.carleton.ca

Lectures

Tuesdays and Thursdays 10:00 to 11:30 am, ME-4499
Lecture notes available through IEEE students brach at Carleton University

Course Notes

Home page

www.doe.carleton.ca/~shams

Course Objective and Outline

The course addresses the three major blocks of a microprocessor-based system: microprocessor, memory, and I/O devices.


Microprocessor	History, Intel 8086 to Pentium, Motorola 86000, Architecture, Instructions, Bus Timing, Performance
Memory	Organization, Types, Interfacing, Timing, and Address Decoding
I/O Devices	Isolated and Memory Mapped I/O, Interface Units, Serial and Parallel communication, Asynchronous communication, Polling, Interrupts, and DMA

Detailed Course Outline in web

References

Barry Brey, The Intel Microprocessors, Fifth Edition, Prentice Hall, 2005

David Patterson and John Hennessy, Computer Organization and Design, 4th Edition, Morgan Kaufmann, 2009

Marking Scheme

Laboratory	20%
Midterm Exam	25%
Assignments	0-5%
Final Exam	50-55%

Class Marks as of 3 Nov 2011

Exams

Midterm exam is scheduled for Thursday, 20 October 2011, 10-11:30 pm, open book.
Final Exam will be scheduled for ??? December 2011, closed book.
Students must pass the final exam to pass the course.
The final exam papers are for evaluation purposes only and will not be returned to the students.
The final exam is closed book.

Teaching Assistants

Name	Email	Duty	Office Hours
Khdim Dia	kdia@doe.carleton.ca	Lab 3
Haizheng Guo	hguo1@doe.carleton.ca	Lab 2 & 5
Vahidin Jupic	vjupic@doe.carleton.ca	Admistration Lab 1 & 4

Assignments

Assignment 1 due 20 Oct 2011

Assignment 2 due 6 Dec 2011

Labs

Even weeks in ME-4135

Mondays (A3E) 11:30-2:30 pm,

                               Mondays (A2E) 2:30-5:30 pm
                               Tuesdays (A5E) 2:30-5:30 am
                               Fridays (A4E) 8:30-11:30 am, and
                               Fridays (A1E), 11:30-2:30 pm

Lab Instructions (please use the links for each lab below)

intel 8086/8088 User's Manual (i86)

SDK-86 System Design User's Guide (SDK)

intel 8086 Family User's Manual

intel 8255 Peripheral Program Interface Manual (iPPI)

intel 8279 Programmable Keyboard/Display Interface Manual (iPKD)

intel 8253 Programmable Interval Timer Manual (iPIT)

intel 8259 Programmable Interrupt Controller Manual (iPIC)

intel 8251 Programmable Communication Interface, USART (iPCI)

intel 8087 Folating Point Math Coprocessor (iFPC)

PIC Reference Manual (PIC)

Lab Tools Compressed File (Tools.zip)

Lab	Topic	Dates	Tutorial	Cover Sheet	Files	Manual Pages
Lab1	Hardware Familiarization and Instruction Encoding	Oct 3 - Oct 4 Oct 14 instead of Oct 7	Tut1	CS1	Lab1B.asm Lab1D.asm	SDK 3-1:3-25 i86 4-18:4-35 i86 2-51:2-68
Lab2	Bus Waveforms and Parallel Port Programming	Oct17 - Oct21	Tut2	CS2	Lab2.asm	SDK 3-15 iPPI 3-100:104 i86
Lab3	Generating and Handeling Interrupts	Oct 31- Nov 4	Tut3	CS3	Lab3A.asm Lab3B.asm	iPKD, iPIT, iPIC
Lab4	Seial Communication and Floating Point Emulation	Nov 14-Nov18	Tut4	CS4	Lab4A.asm Lab4B.asm	iPCI, iPKD, iFPC
Lab5	PIC Mechatronics 16-bit Microcontroller	Nov 28-Dec 2	Tut5	CS5	Instructions 5

Excercises and Previous Exams