17CS44 Microprocessors and Microcontrollers syllabus for CS

The x86 microprocessor:

Brief history of the x86 family, Inside the 8088/86, Introduction to assembly programming, Introduction to Program Segments, The Stack, Flag register, x86 Addressing Modes.

Assembly language programming:

Directives & a Sample Program, Assemble, Link & Run a program, More Sample programs, Control Transfer Instructions, Data Types and Data Definition, Full Segment Definition, Flowcharts and Pseudo code.

Text book 1: Ch 1: 1.1 to 1.7, Ch 2: 2.1 to 2.7

x86:

Instructions sets description,

Arithmetic and logic instructions and programs:

Unsigned Addition and Subtraction, Unsigned Multiplication and Division, Logic Instructions, BCD and ASCII conversion, Rotate Instructions.

INT 21H and INT 10H Programming :

Bios INT 10H Programming , DOS Interrupt 21H. 8088/86 Interrupts, x86 PC and Interrupt Assignment.

Text book 1: Ch 3: 3.1 to 3.5, Ch 4: 4.1 , 4.2 Chapter 14: 14.1 and 14.2

Signed Numbers and Strings:

Signed number Arithmetic Operations, String operations.

Memory and Memory interfacing:

Memory address decoding, data integrity in RAM and ROM, 16-bit memory interfacing.

8255 I/O programming:

I/O addresses MAP of x86 PC’s, programming and interfacing the 8255.

Text book 1: Ch 6: 6.1, 6.2. Ch 10: 10.2, 10.4, 10.5. Ch 11: 11.1 to 11.4

Microprocessors versus Microcontrollers,

ARM Embedded Systems:

The RISC design philosophy, The ARM Design Philosophy, Embedded System Hardware, Embedded System Software,

ARM Processor Fundamentals:

Registers , Current Program Status Register , Pipeline, Exceptions, Interrupts, and the Vector Table , Core Extensions

Text book 2:Ch 1:1.1 to 1.4, Ch 2:2.1 to 2.5

Introduction to the ARM Instruction Set :

Data Processing Instructions , Branch Instructions, Software Interrupt Instructions, Program Status Register Instructions, Coprocessor Instructions, Loading Constants, Simple programming exercises.

Text book 2: Ch 3:3.1 to 3.6 ( Excluding 3.5.2)

Course Outcomes:

After studying this course, students will be able to

• Differentiate between microprocessors and microcontrollers
• Develop assembly language code to solve problems
• Explain interfacing of various devices to x86 family and ARM processor
• Demonstrate interrupt routines for interfacing devices

Question paper pattern:

• The question paper will have ten questions.
• There will be 2 questions from each module.
• Each question will have questions covering all the topics under a module.
• The students will have to answer 5 full questions, selecting one full question from each module.

Text Books:

1. Muhammad Ali Mazidi, Janice Gillispie Mazidi, Danny Causey, The x86 PC Assembly Language Design and Interfacing, 5th Edition, Pearson, 2013.

2. ARM system developers guide, Andrew N Sloss, Dominic Symes and Chris Wright, Elsevier,Morgan Kaufman publishers, 2008.

Reference Books:

1. Douglas V. Hall: Microprocessors and Interfacing, Revised 2nd Edition, TMH, 2006.

2. K. Udaya Kumar & B.S. Umashankar : Advanced Microprocessors & IBM-PC Assembly Language Programming, TMH 2003.

3. Ayala : The 8086 Microprocessor: programming and interfacing - 1st edition, Cengage Learning

4. The Definitive Guide to the ARM Cortex-M3, by Joseph Yiu, 2nd Edition , Newnes, 2009

5. The Insider’s Guide to the ARM7 based microcontrollers, Hitex Ltd.,1st edition, 2005

6. ARM System-on-Chip Architecture, Steve Furber, Second Edition, Pearson, 2015

7. Architecture, Programming and Interfacing of Low power Processors- ARM7, Cortex-M and MSP430, Lyla B Das Cengage Learning, 1st Edition