ASSUMPTION UNIVERSITY

FACULTY OF ENGINEERING

COURSE SYLLABUS 2/2004

EE 3703 MICROPROCESSOR

PREREQUISITE: EN 3701 PRINCIPLES OF DIGITAL CIRCUITS

LECTURER: Dr. Jatuporn Chinrungrueng

Room: TBA:

Time: 9:30-12:30

Course objective: To introduce the students to the software and hardware

architectures of RISC and CISC microprocessors.

Textbook: no required textbook for this course. However, the materials that are used

in this course will be taken from the following reference books:

1. Computer organization and design: the hardware/software interface 2nd

      edition, David A. Patterson and John L. Hennessy

2. The 8088 and 8086 Microprocessors: programming, interfacing, software,

     hardware, and applications, Walter A. Triebel and Avtar Singh

3. Microprocessors and interfacing programming and hardware, Douglas V. Hall

4. The intel microprocessors: 8086/8088, 80186, 80286, 80386, and 80486

     architecture, programming and interfacing 3rd edition, Barry B. Brey

Grading: Homework assignment

Midterm 40%

Final 60%

Course outline:

Week Topic Remarks

1 Review of microprocessor systems Sat 6/Nov/2004

2 Arithmetic operation design Sat 13/Nov/2004

3 Instructions: language of the machine Sat 20/Nov/2004

4 Instructions: language of the machine Sat 27/Nov/2004

5 Single Cycle datapath Sat 4/Dec/2004

6 Single Cycle/ Muticycle datapath Sat 11/Dec/2004

7 Multicycle datapath Sat 18/Dec/2004

8 Review TBA

9 Midterm/ no class Sat 8/Jan/2005

10 Pipeline Sat 15/Jan/2005

11 Pipeline Sat 22/Jan/2005

12 Memory system/ Cache Sat 29/Jan/2005

13 Cache Sat 5/Feb/2005

14 I/O interface Sat 12/Feb/2005

15 I/O interface Sat 19/Feb/2005

16 Review Sat 26/Feb/2005

Class attendance: In order to meet the University’s rules and regulations, the students

are required to miss classes no more than 3 class days.

My email is jatuporn_c@notes.nectec.or.th. This is to facilitate our

communications. If anyone has any question or concern, you can also contact me

using the above email address.