COURSE UNIT TITLE

: MICROPROCESSORS

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
ELECTIVE

Offered By

Computer Engineering

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

ŞERIFE YILMAZ

Offered to

Computer Engineering

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, CISC versus RISC microprocessor comparison
7 Internals of Intel 8086: Properties, characteristics, pinout, registers, timing diagrams.
8 Examination of an Intel 8086 based computer motherboard,
9 Programming and interfacing 8086, architecture of other Intel 80x86 microprocessors.
10 Out of order processing, branch prediction.Intel Pentium processors, general properties, advances in processor architectures. increasing processor performance, modern techniques.
11 Early multi-tasking hardware in processors,
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, homework and lab-work.

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 LAB LABORATORY
3 FIN FINAL EXAM
4 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE * 0.25 + LAB * 0.25 + FIN * 0.50
5 RST RESIT
6 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.25 + LAB * 0.25 + RST * 0.50


Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

Lab experiments, midterm and final exams.

Language of Instruction

English

Course Policies and Rules

Presentations given during the lectures, homeworks, notifications of lab sessions are posted on the course management server of the department. Students are expected to log into the server and follow the course. The activities of the students enrolled in the course are monitored and evaluated.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

Şerife YILMAZ
serife@cs.deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

Monday 10:00-12:00

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 14 3 42
Preparation for final exam 1 26 26
Preparation for midterm exam 1 18 18
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 14 3 42
In-class practices 14 1 14
Midterm 1 2 2
Final 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 146

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9PO.10
LO.12343
LO.222523
LO.3325324
LO.4335244
LO.53442434
LO.635553

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