Authorised by Academic Registrar, April 1996
Objectives The student is expected to develop confidence in designing, constructing and testing sequential logic circuits to demonstrate the validity of the theory and verify the limitations of the different design. The student is expected to develop an understanding of and the ability to select the different types of input/output techniques available for data transfer between a microcomputer and the real world.
Synopsis Digital circuits - comparison of and interfacing between integrated circuit logic families (TTL, ECL, MOS, etc). Sequential circuits including semiconductor memories, design of sequential circuits (shift register, synchronous and asynchronous counters, pulse and timing circuits). Microprocessors and microcomputers - assemblers and cross assemblers, parallel and serial input/output, interrupt systems, vectored and polled interrupts, programmed I/O operation using handshake, direct memory access.
Assessment Examination: 60% + Laboratory: 30% + Assignments: 10%