Description: Credit 3. Microprocessor architecture, micro programmed machines, programmer’s model, control signals and timing, system buses,parallel and serial interfacing, interrupt processing, I/O devices, memory devices, direct memory access, and comparison of several microprocessors; laboratory. 

Prerequisites: ECE 267; and gr. of C or bett. in ECE 265; or gr. of C or bett. in CS 366.

Topics: 

1. Assembly Language
2. Microprocessor architecture and microprogrammed machines
3. System buses
4. Control signals and bus timing
5. Parallel interfacing
6. Serial interfacing
7. Memory systems and direct memory access
8. Interrupt processing
9. MComparison of microprocessors such as the: 8085, Z80, 6809, 68HC11, 68000, etc.
10.Microcomputer design
11.Multiprocessor systems and bus arbitration
12.Practical applications