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 (Lab. exam): 15%; 6 Labs: 30%; project & presentations: 15%; Class attendance/performance: 5%; and Final Exam: 20%.

Schedule

Week	Date	Lecture Topics	Lab.
0	1/22	Introduction, over view of M5208	No Lab.
1	1/27,2/29	CPU and Memory Organizations, Cache,	Lab Instructions Lab.1
2	2/3,2/5	Cache, SRAM, and Interrupt Concepts	Lab. 1
3	2/10,2/12	A PIT IRQ Example, Power Management, and DMA	Lab. 2
4	2/17, 2/19	Serial Communication, UART Interface	Lab 3
5	2/24,2/26	Error Control Coding	Lab. 4
6	3/3	Exam. 1, Sample Questions for Preparing Exam	SBCTools Demo, Lab. 5
6	3/5	Wireless Communication with ZigBee	Lab. 5
7	3/10,3/12	Project Proposal Presentations	Lab 6
8	3/17-3/19	No Class, Spring Break	No Lab
9	3/24,3/26	Developing ZigBee Applications	Starting Project
10	3/31,4/2	I/O architectures, disks, RAID, storages	Project
11	4/7, 4/9	Exam 2: Lab Exams.	Project
12	4/14,4/16	Advanced Topics; Two Way Recovery, Undo/Redo.	Project
13	4/21,4/23	Project Presentation and Demos	Project
15	4/28 and May 5	Review and Final Exam	8:30am-11:00pm

TEXT BOOKS:

1) MCF5208 User's Manual, Motorola;
2) ColdFire Microprocessor Family Programmer's Reference Manual;
3) M5208EVB User's Manual

And online documentations

Next: Laboratory Requirements

Qing Yang
2001-01-16