Electrical and Computer Engineering


230.  Microcomputers.  Review of microcomputer structure.  Decoders.  Tri-state devices.  ALU's.  Flip-Flops.  Registers.  Counters.  Memory devices.  Instruction sets.  Bus  structures.  Controls.  Microinstructions.  Timing. I/O interface designs.  Serial and parallel ports.  Laboratory study of a single board computer, with assembly language programming and  interfacing experiments.  Spring    (Cr.3) 

Prerequisite: ELEC 229.