GEG3533

Digital electronics and computers II

G Chetty

4.5 points
* 39 lecture/tutorial hours and 26 laboratory hours
* First semester
* Gippsland/distance
* Prerequisite: GEG2533

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, assembly language programming for 8 bit micro - 68HCII.

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, with 8 bit 68HCII microcontroller.

Assessment Examination: 60%
* Laboratory: 30%
* Assignments: 10%

Prescribed texts

Floyd T L Digital fundamentals 6th edn, Prentice-Hall, 1997
Greenfield J The 68HCII microcontroller Saunders, 1992

Recommended texts

Gaunkar R S Microprocessor architecture, programming and applications with 8085/808A Merrill, 1984
Ismail A R and Rooney V M Digital concepts and applications 2nd edn, Saunders, 1994