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2011-2012 UMass Dartmouth Undergraduate Catalog [Archived Catalog]

ECE 566 - Microprocessors I

3 credits
3 hours lecture
Prerequisites: Graduate standing in the College of Engineering
Design and construction of a microprocessor based computer system. Students will learn how a computer operates at the chip level and develop an understanding of the interdependence of hardware and software Students will develop circuitry and software to control CPU interaction with SRAM, ROM and peripheral chips, as well as reset and boot-up control and interrupt handling. At the end of the course, students will have produced a working computer.