COURSE UNIT TITLE

: INTRODUCTION TO MICROPROCESSORS

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
CSE 5051 INTRODUCTION TO MICROPROCESSORS ELECTIVE 3 0 0 8

Offered By

Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR DOCTOR RECEP ALP KUT

Offered to

Computer Engineering Non-Thesis
COMPUTER ENGINEERING
Computer Engineering
Computer Engineering
Computer Engineering (Non-Thesis-Evening)

Course Objective

The aim of the course is to provide the final year students with abilities to recognize modern computer hardware and use them effectively, understand the details of microprocessor based microcomputers and obtain the basic testing and benchmarking experience of microcomputers by on hand experiments, before graduating to professional life.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Recognize the history and improvement of microcomputers to our date, identity the milestones in microprocessor history and extrapolate the coming architectures
2   Analyze the state tables, state diagrams and timing diagrams of microprocessors
3   Identify the properties of a target, popular, commercial microprocessor and use it to design a simple microcomputer
4   Recognize the properties and advantages of microprocessors manufactured with the latest technology
5   Recognize and benefit from the architectural improvements in modern microprocessors
6   Use the interactive tools provided by the microprocessor producers to test and evaluate modern microprocessors

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Introduction to microprocessors: Building blocks and components
2 The history of microprocessors and microcomputers, instruction cycle, address-data-control busses
3 States in digital systems, state tables, diagrams and timing diagrams of microprocessors instructions
4 Opcodes, addressing modes, input-output, I/O controllers
5 I/O modes, interrupts, direct memory access, examples of I/O and DMA controllers
6 Commercial microprocessors, Intel microprocessors as an education tool
7 CISC versus RISC microprocessor comparison
8 Internals of Intel 8086: Properties, characteristics, pinout, registers, timing diagrams.
9 Programming and interfacing 8086, architecture of other Intel 80x86 microprocessors.
10 Out of order processing, branch prediction.
11 Intel Pentium processors, general properties, advances in increasing processor performance, modern techniques.
12 The Pentium architecture, classification numbers, areas of use.
13 Hyper-threading, SMP and SMT architectures, multi tasking, multi processing.
14 Interactive training and testing tools of microprocessor producers for hyperthreading.

Recomended or Required Reading

Textbook: The Intel Microprocessors, Barry B. Brey, Pearson Prentice Hall, 7th Ed.,2006.

Recommended: Digital Logic and Microcomputer Design, M. Rafiquzzaman, Wiley and Sons, 2005.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Lectures
Literature Research
Presentation
Term Project

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 ASG ASSIGNMENT
2 PRS PRESENTATION
3 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE ASG * 0.50 + PRS * 0.50


*** Resit Exam is Not Administered in Institutions Where Resit is not Applicable.

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

Assessment will be the success level of presentation and the final report of term project.

Language of Instruction

English

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

Dokuz Eylul University
Department of Computer Engineering
Tinaztepe Campus Buca - IZMIR

Tel: +90 (232) 3017401

Office Hours

Thursday 9:30 - 10:30

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 14 3 42
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 14 2 28
Preparing assignments 1 42 42
Preparing presentations 2 25 50
Reading 1 26 26
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 188

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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LO.123344155521
LO.24535515422
LO.355355355411
LO.42234435551
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CONTACT INFORMATION
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Phone: +90(232) 412 12 12 - Fax: +90 (232) 464 81 35

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