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ELE408 Computer Organization Lab.

Instructor: Prof. Ken Q. Yang
Office: Kelley Hall A220
Tel.: 874-5880

Class Hours: TR 9:30AM-10:45AM (Klly102)
Lab.: Monday and Tuesday: 2:00PM-4:45PM (Klly120)
Besides lectures, students are expected to work at least 8 hours per week to do homework, prepare for labs, perform experiments, and write lab reports.
Grading: Exam 1: 15% ; Exam 2: 15%; Exam 3 (lab exam): 15%; Labs: 25%; project & presentations: 15%; and Final Exam: 20%. (105 points total!)

Schedule

Week

Date

Lecture Topics

Lab.

1

1/22

Introduction, Overview of Freescale Kinetis Tower Family

No Lab.

2

1/27,1/29

Introduction to ARM Cortex M4 Architecture, Memory Organization,

Lab.1

3

2/3,2/5

Memory Hierarchy, and Cache Memory

Lab. 2

4

2/10,2/12

Exception Processing, Interrupt control; Power management

Lab. 3

5

2/17, 2/19

Direct Memory Access, DMA,

Lab makeups

6

2/24,2/26

Midterm Exam, Exam1 Serial Communication, and Interfacing

Lab. 4

7

3/3,3/5

Wireless communication, ZigBee; LCD display.

Lab. 5

8

3/10, 3/12

Error Control Coding.

Lab 6

9

3/17,3/19

No Class, Spring Break

No Lab

10

3/24,3/26

Exam2 on Tuesday,Project Proposal Due & in Class Presentations, Thursday

Starting Project

11

3/31,4/2

Advance Topics; I/O architectures, disks, RAID, storages

Project

12

4/7

Advanced Topics Advanced topics and design project discussions

Project

13

4/9,4/14,4/16

Exam 3: Lab Exam.

Project

14

4/21,4/23

Project Presentation and Demos; Final review.

Project

15

April 28

Final Exam

9:30am-10:45am

 

TEXT BOOKS:


  • Cortex-M4 Technical Reference Manual
  • CortexTM-M4 Devices Generic User Guide
  • Freescale K70 Reference Manual

    And other related online documentations

     


     



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    Qing Yang
    2001-01-16