MONASH UNIVERSITY FACULTY HANDBOOKS

Engineering Handbook 1996

Authorised by Academic Registrar, April 1996

ECS2370

Computer systems engineering I

L Kleeman and R A Jarvis

Objectives The student is expected to acquire a basic knowledge and understanding of the discrete nature of information representation and processing in digital computer systems, the diversity and flexibility of applications of hardwired and programmed digital systems, combinational and synchronous logic implementations, microprocessor systems, architecture and the appropriate use of assembly language programming.

Synopsis Combinational logic implementation and Karnaugh map minimisation; clocked sequential logic circuits: flip-flops, state diagrams and transition tables, analysis and synthesis of circuits. Counters, registers and random access memory. Binary coding of information; arithmetic operations and their logic implementation. The stored-program-control concept and microprocessor computer architecture; assembly language programming with a subset of the 80x86 instruction set.

Assessment Examination (2 hours): 85% + Laboratory work: 15%

Prescribed texts

• Keogh D B and Kleeman L Introductory computer systems engineering Dept Electrical and Computer Systems Engineering, Monash U, 1996
• Uffenbeck J The 8086/8088 family: Design, programming, and interfacing Prentice-Hall, 1987

Recommended texts

• Leventhal L A Introduction to microprocessors: Software, hardware, programming Prentice-Hall, 1978
• Mano M M Digital logic and computer design Prentice-Hall, 1979
• Short K L Microprocessors and programmed logic 2nd edn, Prentice-Hall, 1987
• Wakerly J F Digital design: Principles and practices 2nd edn, Prentice-Hall, 1994