ENSC 151-2: DIGITAL AND COMPUTER DESIGN LABORATORY

Spring 1999
ENSC 151-2
DIGITAL AND COMPUTER DESIGN LABORATORY

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Spring 1999: this page is continuously under construction!

TOPICS TEXTBOOKS SCHEDULE EXAMS ASSIGNMENTS

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Course Description: The practical concepts of assembly language such as programming, digital device interfacing, and hardware/software interfacing will be introduced through a group project. Topics will include: assembler concepts; micro-controllers; the hardware/software interface. Laboratory techniques will also be introduced as needed. This is a project course with a few lectures and with laboratory tutorials.

Prerequisites: ENSC 150-3 or CMP 150-3.

TOPICS:

Introduction and organization
Motorola Evaluation Board (EVB): layout and architecture
Motorola HC12 microprocessor
Assembler concepts: registers, ports, memory, interrupts.
IASM12: The Integrated Assembler for HC12.
ALTERA 7000 PLD family
ALTERA MUX+PLUS II programming tools
Elements of VHDL programming
Hardware/software interface
Analog to digital conversion
Micro-controllers.

TEXTBOOKS:
Only recommended for the course:

James O. Hamblen and Michael D. Furman, Rapid Prototyping of Digital Systems, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston, MA, 1999. (1 day)

Frederic M. Cady, Software and Hardware Engineering: Motorola M68HC11, Oxford University Press, Cambridge, MA, 1997. (3 days)

Gene H. Miller, Microcomputer Engineering, Prentice Hall, Englewood, Cliffs, NJ, 1999. (3 days)

Zoran Salcic and Asim Smailagic, Digital Systems Design and Prototyping Using Field Programmable Logic, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston, MA, 1997. (3 days)

Copies of manuals available at the SFU bookstore:

M68EVB912B32 Evaluation Board User's Manual, Motorola.

MC68HC912B32 Technical Summary, 16-Bit Microcontroller, Motorola.

Free manuals:

68HC12, CPU12, Reference Manual, Motorola.

Reading material:

Frederic M. Cady, Microcontrollers and Microcomputers: Principles of software and hardware engineering, Oxford University Press, Cambridge, MA, 1997. (3 days)

Charles H. Roth, Jr, Digital Systems Design Using VHDL, PWS Publishing Co., Boston, MA 1998. (3 days)

Text used in the ENSC 150 that might be of help:

Albert Paul Malvino and Jerald A. Brown, Digital Computer Electronics, Third Edition, McGraw Hill, New York, NY, 1993 (imprint 1997). (3 days)

Check the status of the books on reserve for ENSC 151 by typing "ENSC 151" (with the space) in the search window.

SCHEDULE:
Lectures:
T 12:30 - 14:20 and Th 12:30 - 13:20 in AQ 3154

Laboratory Tutorials:

ACS MCF PC Lab: AQ 3148 reserved: M 17:30 - 19:30 and TWR 16:30 - 18:30

ACS CIC PC Lab: AQ 3145.2 reserved: T 17:30 - 18:30

ENSC 9800 Laboratories (TA's office hours)

GRADING:
Assignments 30%, Final Project 70%.
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NO MIDTERM AND FINAL EXAMS

FINAL PROJECT REPORTS:
Due Thursday, April 1, 1999 (midnight).
Sign-up sheet for the final demos
The final project grading policy

ASSIGNMENTS:
Three assignment projects.

Assignment #1

Assignment #2(a) and Assignment #2(b)

Assignment #3

INSTRUCTOR:

Ljiljana Trajkovic

ljilja@cs.sfu.ca

TEACHING ASSISTANTS:

Arash Haidari-Khabbaz
ahaidari@sfu.ca
Lab tutorial: T 17:30 - 19:30 (ACS CIC PC Lab)
Office hours: W 10:00 - 11:00 (ENSC 9800 Lab)

Please visit Bill's page for latest code:
William J. De Vries
wdevries@sfu.ca
Lab tutorial: M 17:30 - 19:30 and R 16:30 - 18:30 (ACS MCF PC Lab)
Office hours: M 14:00 - 15:00 (ENSC 9800 Lab)