Homework Assignments

General policies apply to all of the homework assignments. You are responsible for understanding those policies, and submitting your work in accordance with them. You are also responsible for checking the grade summary when updated grades are posted to ensure that your scores are correctly recorded.

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Week Of	Assignment
January 11	No lab
January 18	No lab
January 25	tutorial (T), #2(Th)
February 1	#2(T)#3(Th)
February 8	#3(T)#4(Th)

Week Of	Assignment
February 15	#4(T)#5(Th)
February 22	#5(T)#6(Th)
March 1	#6(T)#7(Th)
March 8	#7(T)#8(Th)
March 15	#8(T)#9(Th)

Week Of	Assignment
March 22	Spring Break
March 29	#9(T)#10(Th)
April 5	#10(T)#11(Th)
April 12	#11(T)#11(Th)
April 19	#11(T)#12(Th)

Assignment #1

We will not be doing Assignment #1, instead we will start with Assignment #2

Assignment #2

Assembler and Debugger:

Using the Microtec programming environment to manage code development
Configuring the compiler to produce assembly code files
Discovering how common constructs are implemented
Seeing how different addressing modes are used
Using the debugger to inspect values

Assignment #3

Communication with C:

Using data provided by C
Understanding arithmetic overflow
Returning results to C

Assignment #4

Addressing mode decoder:

More complex communication with C
Use of logical instructions
Instruction encoding and addressing modes

Assignment #5

Recursion:

Separation of interface and implementation
Stack storage for local variables
Using the MB5 monitor to follow execution

Assignment #6

Modules and Linking:

Decomposing a problem
Selecting appropriate languages
Linking across file boundaries
Creating a Makefile

Assignment #7

Serial I/O:

Manipulation of individual bits
Communication with a device interface
Synchronization with external events

Assignment #8

Interrupt-Driven Serial I/O:

Setting an interrupt vector
Enabling interrupts
Interrupt handling
Using a circular buffer

Assignment #9

Timing:

Program a counter/timer to interrupt the CPU at specific time intervals
Use the counter/timer interrupt handler to feed samples to the D/A converter
Get practice at enabling and disabling interrupts and installing an interrupt handler

Assignment #10

Analog Input:

Using a counter/timer to obtain periodic samples of a signal
Using an Analog-to-Digital (A/D) Converter to sample an analog signal
Playing back an analog signal via the Digital-to-Analog (D/A) Converter

Assignment #11

Memory Architecture:

Understand what a TLB is and why it is needed
Understand how virtual to physical address translation works
Understand why caching is important and how it improves computer performance

Assignment #12

Simple Calculator:

Use the Liquid Crystal Display (LCD)
Use the key pad

Instructor

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