CS 424, CMPE 323: Computer System Applications: Design and Development
Instructor’s Name: Mohammad Jahangir Ikram
Year:
Office No. & Email: 424 jikram@lums.edu.pk
Quarter: Spring
Office Hours: TBA
Category: Senior
2005
TA for the Course: Sana Naveed Khwaja, Omar Gul, Omair Zafar
Course Code:
CS424,
CMPE 323
(4 Units)
Course
Description
Computer System Applications: Design & Development
This course deals with the practical concepts related to the use of microcomputers and
embedded processors in industrial applications.
This course provides sufficient knowledge to the students to use microcomputers to
sense the real world quantities, analyses the data, and to use the results to perform
control functions.
In this course related topics are covered from different primary texts and related
application notes form microcomputer manufacturers.
It is an Elective course of Computer Science Program and Core for Computer Engineering.
Core/Elective
Pre-requisites
CS223: Computer Organization & Assembly Language Programming
This course will build upon two earlier hardware related courses which all CS
students take at LUMS, namely, CS221 (Digital Logic) and CS223 (Computer
Organization and Assembly Language). Upon successful completion of the course, the
students should be able to (at least):
 compute the various access times provided by the CPU in an embedded
microcomputer system
 identify various industry standard microcomputer buses and study their
characteristics
 calculate the amount of buffering needed on different buses when interfacing
additional components
 to decode the processor's address and control buses to generate device select pulse
and use this signal to enable I/O ports
 explain the handshaking signals exchanged between a microcomputer and external
devices
 compare the advantages and disadvantages of various I/O methods (serial vs.
parallel I/O, synchronous vs. asynchronous I/O, programmed I/O vs. interrupt
driven I/O vs. DMA)
 explain the difference between hardware and software interrupts in an embedded
microcomputer system
 design I/O subsystems to connect various sensors, actuators and peripheral devices.
 Microcontrollers
 develop an overall understanding of embedded computer applications in the real
world.
Goals
This course will provide sufficient foundation for the students to pursue further studies
in a number of 'state-of-the-art" areas related to computer design and architecture at the
senior (undergraduate) as well as the graduate levels. Example areas include:
 Advanced Logic Design
 Computer Architecture
 PLD/FPGA Based Design using Verilog, VHDL etc.
 VHDL
 Electronic Design Automation (EDA)
 Micro-Processor-based Design
 Parallel Processing,
 Embedded Systems

Computer Communications and Networking
Computer System Application (Design & Development)
Year:
Quarter:
2005
Spring
Recommended:
1. “The 80X86 Family, Design, Programming, And Interfacing”
By J. Uffenbeck, 2nd Edition, 1998, Prentice Hall.
TextBooks,
Programming
Environment,
etc.
2.
“ Interfacing ” by Derenzo, 1990, Prentice Hall.
3.
“ Microcomputer Interfacing ” by H.S. Stone,
Addison Wesley Publishing Company.
4.
“Electrical Measurement And Instruments”
By Berlin And Getz.
5.
Application Notes On Intel Microprocessors and Micro Controllers etc.
Selected topics from the above list of books.
Reference:
1.
“80X86 Programming And Interfacing” By M.A. Maizidi.
2.
“80X86 Microprocessors” By B.B. Brey.
3.
“Biomedical Measurement And Instruments” By Aston
Programming Environment:
1. MASM.
2. Turbo C / C++
Lectures,
Tutorials &
Attendance
Policy
Grading
There will be 20 lectures and 10 laboratory sessions ―
 20 lectures of 75 minutes each.
 10 computer hardware lab session of 100 minutes every week.
Grading policy is as follow
Lab
Quizzes + Assignments
Mid-term Exam
Final Exam
Project
Exhibition
15%
20%
20%
30%
14%
1%
Computer System Applications: Design & Development
Module
1.
2.
3.
4.
Topics
Year:
2005
Quarter:
Spring
Sessions
Basic hardware building blocks in
an embedded microcomputer system
Basics of Interfacing
Basic System Design
Address Decoding Techniques
Intro to Embedded System Design
Microcomputer I/O subsystems
Review of computer I/O ports and techniques
Parallel I/O vs. serial I/O
Memory mapped VS independent I/O
Polled I/O
The 8255 Programmable Peripheral Interface
Keyboard Interface
Interrupts and DMA
Timing requirements of I/O ports
Readings
1
class notes
2
Uff. chapter 7
& Lec Notes
4
Uff. Chapter 8
class notes
Chapter 9
Microcomputer system software
and programming concepts (revisited)
1
class notes
Assembly language programming , MASM 6.11
Data types
Addressing modes Instruction types
Assembler directives
Software development for embedded systems
MIDTERM EXAM
5.
Serial data communication standards
Serial 1/0
EIA RS-232 standard
The Universal Asynchronous Receiver Transmitter
2
Uff. chapter 10
Class Notes
Computer System Applications: Design & Development
2005
Year:
Spring
Quarter:
Module
Module
6.
Topics
Topics
Industrial computer bus standards
Sessions
Sessions
2
ISA bus
EISA bus
Microchannel
Local Bus: VESA and PCI
I/O Buses: SCSI and USB
Instrumentation Bus (GPIB)
7.
Industrial data acquisition and control
Readings
Readings
Uff, Chapter 11
Class Notes
2
Basic Measurement electronics
A/D and D/A conversion
Transducers, Sensors and actuators
8.
9.
Interrupt Programming and Device Driver
Introduction to Microcontroller Programming
1
2
10.
Seminars with case studies
2
Seminar Notes
Laboratory Experiments
10.
Study of Parallel port and I/O through Parallel port
Lab Notes
Display Matrix
Lab Notes
A/D and D/A Conversion
Lab Notes
Motor Speed Measurement & Control
Lab Notes
Interrupt Programming
Lab Notes
Basic Device Driver
Lab Notes
Embedded system design using Microcontroller
Lab Notes
FINAL EXAM
1
1
2
1
2
1
2