EE371 Microprocessor Systems
Lecture
Schedule
See Time Table
Semester
Fifth – Fall 2015
Credit
Hours
Three
Pre-requisite
EE 270: Digital Logic Design
Instructor
Muhammad Tahir (MT) and
Khawaja Shahzada (KS).
Contact
mtahir@uet.edu.pk
khawaja.shahzada@gmail.com
Office
Electrical Eng. Dept. UET.
Office Hours
TBA
Teaching
Assistant
None
Lab
Schedule
See class timetable
Office
N/A
Office Hours
N/A
Course
Description
Microprocessors/microcontroller based systems are being used in modern digital
electronic designs for a large horizon of applications including information
acquisition its processing as well transmission and in process control to name a
few. This course provides students an opportunity to study the internal
architecture of microprocessor/controller and to learn how to exploit their power
by interfacing and programming them to solve real world problems. The key
objectives of the course include the introduction to the fundamentals of
microprocessor/controller based systems, provide an opportunity to learn
hardware and software design concepts and translate them to solutions to
practical problems.
Expected
Outcomes
Upon completion of the course the students will
 Have an understanding of microprocessor/controller architecture
 Be able to write assembly/C language programs
 Be able to perform parallel, serial and analog interfacing
REQUIRED:
1. Lecture notes
Textbooks
References:
1. J. Valvano, Introduction to Embedded Systems: Introduction to ARM CORTEXM Microcontrollers, 3rd ed., December 2012.
2. J. Yiu, The Definitive Guide to the ARM® Cortex-M3, 2nd edition, 2010.
3. ARM®v7-M Architecture Reference Manual
http://infocenter.arm.com/help/index.jsp?topic=/com.arm.doc.ddi0403c/index.html
Grading
Policy
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Class Participation:
Quizzes:
Midterm:
Final:
10%
20%
30%
40%
Lecture Plan
Weeks*
Topics
Readings
0.5
Overview of the course, embedded systems,
microprocessor vs. microcontroller, classification of
processor architectures, development tools
Chapter 1 (Lecture
notes)
1.5
Why ARM architecture? Introduction to ARM- Cortex-M3,
architecture, registers, ALU, Buses, Operating modes,
Memory Map, Reset Sequence, Pipelining
Chapter 2 (Lecture
notes)
1.0
Why assembly programming? Introduction to Cortex–M
assembly programming
Chapter 4 (Lecture
notes)
1.0
Shift & arithmetic operations, other useful data
processing instructions
Chapter 5 (Lecture
notes)
Quiz1
1.5
Memory access instructions, use of stack and parameter
passing, memory addressing modes
Chapter 6 (Lecture
notes)
2.0
Branch instructions, unconditional and conditional
branches, functions
Chapter 7 (Lecture
notes)
0.5
Introduction to ARM based microcontrollers
Chapter 8 (Lecture
notes)
Mid Term
1.0
I/O, Stellaris LM4F I/O pins, Basic concepts of I/O ports
and Interfacing, Clock sources and Clock configuration,
the concept of PLL
Chapter 8 (Lecture
notes)
1.0
ARM Cortex-M interrupt architecture, interrupt
configuration, interrupt vector table, interrupt handling
Chapter 3 (Lecture
notes)
1.0
I/O synchronization, Interrupt concepts, Peripherals
Interrupts, Nested Interrupts
Chapter 9 (Lecture
notes)
1.0
Timers, configuration and their interrupts, SysTick Timer,
Pulse Width Modulation (PWM)
Chapter 10 (Lecture
notes)
Quiz 2
1.5
Serial Communication (Asynchronous UART and
Synchronous SPI, I2C), basic configuration, polling &
interrupt driven transmission & reception
Chapter 11 (Lecture
notes)
1.5
Analog I/O, A/D and D/A conversion, Real-time data
acquisition
Chapter 12 (Lecture
notes)
1
Networking of embedded systems (advanced topics)
Class notes
Final
List of Experiments
Sr. No.
Title of the Experiment
1
Introduction to laboratory hardware and tools
2
Introduction to C Language Programming
3
Assembly Language Programming fundamentals
4
Assembly Language Instructions
5
Use of memory addressing modes
6
Controlling the execution sequence
7
Use of stack and parameter passing
8
Digital Input/Output interfacing and programming
9
Interfacing Seven Segment display parallel interfacing
10
External/internal Interrupts and ISR programming
11
Timers and time base generation
12
Asynchronous serial interfacing (UART)
13
Analog interfacing
14-15
16
Mini project
Project evaluations