Objective

This course is designed for students to gain an understanding of microprocessor and computer systems. Through this course, students will learn the essentials of modern microprocessors and a microcontroller, as well as assembly programming. Recent advances in selected topics will also be discussed.

Syllabus

• The development of computer systems
• Components of microprocessor-based computer
• 8086/8088 Machine language and assembly language
• 8086/8088 Internal registers, segment and offset
• 8086/8088 Stack operation
• 8086/8088 Addressing modes
• 8088 Hardware
• 8086/8088 Interrupt
• 8051 Microcontroller
• Memory
• Serial and parallel I/O
• DMA, pipelining, cache and hardware interface

Learning Outcome

By the end of the course, students should be able to

• Have an overall picture of the history, progress, and importance of computer systems, and understand its advantages and limitation.
• Understand the hardware and software of computer systems
• Perform low-level computer language programming to control the operation of computers
• Understand different technologies used in computer systems and their importance.
• Perform simple experiments to control the hardware by computers and programs.

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