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ELE408 Computer Organization Lab.

Instructor: Prof. Ken Q. Yang
Office: Kelley Hall Annex A108
Tel.: 874-5880

Class Hours: TR 9:30AM-10:45AM (Klly102)
Lab.: Monday and Tuesday: 2:00PM-4:45PM (Klly120)
Besides lectures, students are expected to work at least 8 hours per week to do homework, prepare for labs, perform experiments, and write lab reports.
Grading: Exam 1: 20% ; Exam 2: 20%; Exam 3 (lab exam): 20%; Labs: 25%; project & presentations: 20%; (105 points total!)

Schedule

Week

Date

Lecture Topics

Lab.

1

1/26,1/28

Introduction, Overview of Freescale Kinetis Tower Family

No Lab.

2

2/2,2/4

Introduction to ARM Cortex M4 Architecture, Memory Organization,

Lab. preparation

3

2/9,2/11

Memory Hierarchy, and Cache Memory

Lab. 1

4

2/16,2/18

Exception Processing, Interrupt control; Power management

Lab. 2

5

2/23, 2/25

Direct Memory Access, DMA,

Lab. 3

6

3/1,3/3

Serial Communication, and Interfacing; Midterm Exam, Exam1

Lab. 4

7

3/8,3/10

Wireless communication, ZigBee; LCD display.

Lab. 5

8

3/15, 3/17

Error Control Coding.

Lab 6

9

3/22,3/24

No Class, Spring Break

No Lab

10

3/29,3/31

Project Proposal Due & in Class Presentations, Thursday

Starting Project

11

4/5,4/7

Advanced Topics; I/O architectures, disks, RAID, storages

Project

12

4/12,4/14

Exam 2, Written Exam; Advanced Topics

Project

13

4/19,4/21

Exam 3: Lab Exams.

Project

14

4/26,4/28

Project Presentation and Demos

Project

15

April 28

Final Project Report Due

9:30am

 

TEXT BOOKS:


  • Cortex-M4 Technical Reference Manual
  • CortexTM-M4 Devices Generic User Guide
  • Freescale K70 Reference Manual

    And other related online documentations

     


     



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    Qing Yang
    2001-01-16