COURSE OUTLINE

EET 357L: Microprocessors I Laboratory

Credits ad Contact Hrs. (Lecture/Laboratory): 1credit, 3 contact hours per week.

Course Description: To accompany EET 357. Emphasis on memory design, I/O design, and software development. Three hours of laboratory a week.  

Prerequisites/Co-Requisites: Digital logic circuits/None 

Textbook(s): Electronic Engineering Technology Packet, Electronic Engineering Technology Department. 

Reference(s): Textbook for EET 357.  

Course Coordinator: Victor M. Rooney, Professor  

Goals/Objectives: To illustrate classroom topics using a "hands-on" approach to the design, construction, and testing of a microprocessor-based computer and its associated sections - CPU, memory, I/O, interrupts, and programming.

Course topics and lecture hours devoted to each topic:  

• The Central Processing Unit (CPU) (6 hrs)
• Read-Only Memory (ROM) (3 hrs.)
• Read/Write Memory (RAM) (3 hrs.)
• Input/Output (I/O) (3 hrs.)
• The Instruction Set (3 hrs.)
• Microprocessor Programming (3 hrs.)
• Assembly Language Programming (6 hrs.)
• Linear addressing & memory mapped (I/O) (3 hrs.)
• Interrupts (3 hrs.)
• Hardware/Software Integration (3 hrs.)

Computer usage: Assembler MAC80 and Simulator INTERP8O.

Laboratory projects: Construct an 8085 based "computer."

Oral and written communication requirements: Laboratory reports.

Calculus usage: None

Library usage: None