EC483 Microprocessor &
Embedded Systems
Computer Engineering
University of Tripoli
Spring 2023
Instructor Muharrem Drebi
EC483: Microprocessor & Embedded Systems
• GENERAL INFORMATION:
▪ Course Prerequisite: EC451, EC482
▪ Location: Room 2-21.
▪ Schedule: 9:30AM-10:45AM Monday and Thursday
▪ Tutorial: TPD
▪ Instructor Email: m.drebi@uot.edu.ly
▪ Class site on Teams group: EC483 Microprocessor &
Embedded Systems
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Class Instructor Muharrem Drebi
• GENERAL INFORMATION:
▪ B.Sc. UOT, Computer Engineering Department, 1991
▪ M.Sc. University of Washington EE 1998 in VLSI
▪ Circuit Design Engineer at Intel. Corp. OR. Design Center
1999-2004.
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Introduction & Course Outline
Textbook: Computer Architecture, A Quantitative Approach
by Hennessy and Patterson’s, 6th Edition
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Introduction & Course Outline
•Advanced
Computer
Architecture
•2021
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Introduction & Course Outline
This course is a continuation of the Microprocessor Systems. Includes
Advanced contemporary processors architectures, memory interface, caches
and memory management. Embedded systems and microcontroller technology,
Microcontroller Architecture and case studies.
• Topics
➢ Measuring performance/cost/power
➢ Chapter 1
➢Memory hierarchy, Caches
➢ Chapter 2 & Appendix B
➢Instruction level parallelism, dynamic and static
➢ Chapter 3 & Appendix C
➢Advanced architectures (AI, NOC, GPUs and multicore)
➢ Case studies
➢ Microprocessors Intel Core I7 , ARM Cortex
➢ Microcontrollers Microchip ATMEGA 328
➢ Embedded Systems
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Organizational Issues
• Office hours, by appointment
• Tutorial: TPD
• Class content will be shared through class website on Teams
➢ One Midterm, 20%
➢ Homework/Project/Quiz(s), 30%
➢ Final 50%
➢ No cheating (0 Total Grade if found cheating)
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Example Project: Building A Modified Beta Processor
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