EECS 373 Winter 2005 - Topic list

• Basics of embedded systems
• Basic PowerPC architecture and assembly language
  • Basic instruction set architecture
  • Number and size of registers
  • Common instructions (load, store, arithmetic, logic)
  • Data sizes (word, halfword, byte)
  • Conditional branches
• Bus protocols and interfacing
  • MPC823 bus
  • Read and write cycles
  • Transaction start and acknowledge
  • Data sizes (word, halfword, byte)
  • Delaying (wait states)
  • Arbitration
• Serial communication
  • Asynchronous communication
  • Start and stop bits
  • Synchronous communication
  • Byte stuffing
  • Bit stuffing
  • NZRI encoding
• Memory
• Stack, calling conventions, ABI
• Common I/O devices
  • Timers
  • Analog to digital converters
  • Digital to analog converters
  • Serial interfaces
  • Video interfaces
• Interrupts
• Direct Memory Access
• Memory technologies
• Lab topics
  • Basic lab hardware familiarity
  • Basics of digital design
  • Using the FPGA software
  • Using the logic analyzer
  • Using the PowerPC assembler
  • Using the debugger
  • Bus interfacing for I/O devices
  • Bus interfacing for memory
  • Serial communication
  • Basic interrupts
  • Timers
  • Analog to Digital Conversion
• Course review