| Description:
| Before taking this unit you must take the digital electronics part of EE10169 Digital electronics and fields and waves or equivalent. Alternatively, a course of relevant reading material, prescribed by the Director of Studies, will be pursued before the start of the unit.
Aims:
To introduce the operating principles, design techniques and interfacing systems of synchronous digital systems of medium complexity (such as microprocessors, DSPs, data converters and communications and memory devices) with a view to their application. To examine the operation, characteristics, and capabilities of commonly used systems.
Learning Outcomes:
On successful completion of this unit a student should be able to:
understand the architecture, operation and characteristics of microprocessor types and their peripheral devices; design and implement simple real-time systems that include microprocessors; understand how these may be programmed and used in a variety of real-time applications; and evaluate the performance of D/A and A/D conversion systems and design basic interface circuits.
Skills:
Application of the information, techniques and methods discussed in the lectures and practicals, to the proposal of, and the carrying through of, appropriate solutions to engineering problems in simple real-time con-trol, instrumentation, and signal processing applications.
Content:
Synchronous-digital-system principles and circuits. Review of microprocessor architectures, registers, CPU, memory (ROM, SRAM, DRAM, EPROM), and impact on system design. Peripheral devices for communications, data acquisition, and digital control. Data conversion principles and circuits. Program control sequences, microcode, register organisation, interrupt protocols. Case studies of example control, instrumentation, and signal processing systems.
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