Syllabus: EE 3310 - Microprocessors

Fall 2011

 

Instructor:

 

Teaching Assistant (Class)

 

Teaching Assistant (Lab)

R. Stephen Gibbs

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Office: NH 504
Office Hours: Mon/Wed 1:30 – 3:00 p.m.
Phone: 817 272 3470

 

Md. Motasim Bellah
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Office: IEEE Mentoring Office
Office Hours: Wed 2:00 – 5:00 p.m. and
Thu 12:30 – 3:30 p.m.
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Laxmy Menon
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Office: NH 148A
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Catalog Data

EE 3310 MICROPROCESSORS (3-2) Principles of operation for microprocessors, including assembly language programming, internal architecture of processors, timing analysis, and interfacing techniques. Special emphasis will be placed on hardware-software interactions, design of memory systems for microprocessors and utilization of programmable peripheral devices. Prerequisite: Grade of C or better in EE 2341 and CSE 1311.

Grading Policy

Point Values for Activities

 

Determining Grade

Exam 1

15%

 

90% -- 100%

A

Exam 2

20%

 

80% -- 89%

B

Homework

10%

 

70% -- 79%

C

Labs

30%

 

60% -- 69%

D

Final Exam

25%

 

0% -- 59%

F

The Textbook

Microcontrollers: From Assembly Language to C Using the PIC24 Family by R. Reese, B. Jones, and J. W. Bruce, ISBN 13: 978-1-5845-0583-9.

Software Requirements

MPLab IDE software.  Click here to go to MPLab download site.  The current version as of 8/24/2011 is 8.76.

Microchip C-Compiler, Student Edition.  Click here for web site.  The current version as of 8/24/2011 is 3.30.

Microchip PIC 24HJ32GP202 Family Datasheet.  Click here for datasheets.

Exams

The two major examinations will be old-fashioned paper and pencil exercises.  The exams are closed book/closed notes/no calculator.

The final exam will be a lab-based exam using the hardware platform built for the course.  It will be open book/open notes/closed internet.

Labs

Labs will start the week of September 12. Labs Reports are due at the beginning of class the Tuesday after the week the lab was to be performed.
More details will be provided before labs begin.  Lab reports must be printed (hardcopy).  Lab Grades will be reduced by 10% for each day or portion of a day after the due date.

Homework Submissions

Homework should be submitted at the beginning of class.  Homework is late as soon as lecture starts.  (And late homework will not be accepted…)

NOTE: No Late Homework Assignments will be accepted.

Americans with Disabilities Act

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As a faculty member, I am required by law to provide "reasonable accommodation" to students with disabilities, so as not to discriminate on the basis of that disability. Student responsibility primarily rests with informing faculty at the beginning of the semester and in providing authorized documentation through designated administrative channels.

Academic Dishonesty

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"Scholastic dishonesty includes but is not limited to cheating, plagiarism, collusion, the submission for credit of any work or materials that are attributable in whole or in part to another person, taking an examination for another person, any act designed to give unfair advantage to a student or the attempt to commit such acts." (Regents' Rules and Regulations, Part One, Chapter VI, Section 3, Subsection 3.2, Subdivision 3.22).