Overview

This course provides computer engineering students with system design software and hardware experience. This course covers hardware features that support advanced process and memory management in modern architectures such as the Pentium. The details of the entire chipset for 8086 are covered, including topics related to the register architecture, machine language, clock generator, bus controller and memory, I/O and interrupt interface. Other details of a complete computer system are discussed, including I/O bus protocols and support chips, memory chips, interrupt handler hardware and external support chips for disk storage, video and direct memory access. This course includes a laboratory that focuses on assembly language programming and board design software.