1. D0013E Microcomputer Engineering
Teachers, and Lab help.
Schedule:
Lectures.
Laborations.
Teaching.
Course material.
Course information.

2. Teacher Lectures and Examiner Per Lindgren Room A2303

3. Schedule 16 lectures approx. 5 laborations, all in the Unix labs.
you must get a Unix account NOW.
Scheduled labs (at least early in the course):
Lab help personnel will be available.
Other lab help available through ; mail -s HELP mail -s HELP

4. Course material Patterson / Hennessy: Computer Organization & Design
The Hardware / Software Interface
On the web:
Schedule, course plan, course info (how-to).
Lab assignments.
MIPS LR 3300 Reference manual, (needed later).
Slides, (like this one).

5. Laborations In groups of two students, or alone.
When decided on lab groups, please
mail -s GROUP
with your names and mail adresses,
Johan will answer with you group number

6. Laborations Assignments available through the web page. Deadlines.
Unique assignments for each group in some of the labs.
Deadlines.
Try to turn in you labs in time!
Precedence will be given to labs turned in on time.
Labs are submitted, acknowledged and returned through fronter.

7. Lab help First scheduled labs Purpose of lab help:
Lab help personnel will be available.
They will help you get started
Purpose of lab help:
To help you solving the problem, NOT
Solving the problem for you.

8. Computer Engineering what’s that?
Computer Organization & Design
Computer architecture:
Instruction set.
Computer design:
Interfacing the environment.
Hardware implementation.
The Hardware / Software Interface
Programming the computer:
write your own user programs.
Controlling the hardware:
write your own system programs (OS/drivers).

9. Example 1

10. Example 2

11. Example 3

12. The Soll Simulator (we will use SyncSim)
Zero ext.
Branch
logic A
ALU 4 B + 31 +
Sgn/Ze
extend

13. Why study the CPU in detail?
Micro processors occur everywhere!
Computers, obviously.
Embedded systems:
TV.
Cell phones.
Cars.
Smart card.
Embedded Internet Systems, (EIS). !!! HOT RESEARCH TOPIC !!!