Course in Electric Vehicle Propulsion and Control (EPIC) Master’s program (2nd year)

Teachers

Lect. Georgian Nicolae

Course Description

Study of the basic concepts in CISC and RISC general microprocessor architecture: registers, memory management, addressing techniques, data transfer, instruction set, input/output strategies. The students should have the possibility to approach any specific microprocessor architecture, either general or dedicated. In the laboratory-type applications, the students are guided in developing applications for the 8086 microprocessor using the emu8086 simulator.

Contents

Course

• “Microcomputer Structure. Defintions”
• “Overview of a CISC, General Purpose Microprocessor Core”
• “Fundamentals of a Typical CISC Architecture”
• “Fundamentals of a Typical RISC Architecture”
• “Input/Output Strategies”
• “Time-Dimension of a General Purpose Microprocessor Architecture”
• “An Overview of Intel x86 Architecture (IA-32) in Real Mode”

Laboratory

• Introducing a development environment for x86 microprocessors: emu8086
• Data transfer instructions and array operations for x86 microprocessors in real mode
• Data processing instructions for x86 microprocessors in real mode
• Program control instructions for x86 microprocessors in real mode
• Interrupts for x86 microprocessors in real mode
• Translation of instructions from high-level programming into assembly
• Laboratory assessment

Grading

Laboratory evaluation: 20%
Project evaluation: 40%
Course final exam (written): 40%