ECE 6050 Advanced Microprocessor Applications

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Welcome to the ECE 6050 Homepage! This is your official information source to Advanced Microprocessor Applications, offered by the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. In this course we will primarily be concerned with advanced features of current microprocessors and various issues of memory system design and interfacing to multi-processor bus systems. Students will gain hands-on experience with contemporary programmable logic devices. Industry standard CAD tools by Mentor Graphics and Xilinx will be used to design, simulate and implement digital circuits. ECE 6050 is a required course for students majoring in computer engineering . Your instructor this fall is Dr. Janos Grantner, a Professor in the Department. 

General Information

Students are required to have parts for Project #3. The  IEEE Student Branch will help in acquiring the Parts Kits (will order the parts and put together the Kits) for those students who place an order and prepay for their Kits in cash. The price for this fall is $157. Students should see Ms. Sheryl Todd (ECE Dept. Office, Hours: 8:00am-5:00pm) if they want to purchase their Kits through the IEEE Student Branch. The final deadline for placing an order is 4:00pm on Tuesday, (9/11/07).
 
However, students are free to buy these parts and the boards through vendors, instead.

Course Syllabus  

Parts List

Data Sheets

Instructor's Notes

Design Clinic


Design Projects                     Project Teams    Project #1   Page1      Page2 
                                                                                                                                                                                                                      

You can find a Tutorial on using the Mentor Graphics tools on the ECE 3550 Class Home Page. The link is on the index page, under Project #1.

Project #2   Page1      Page2      Team          VME Bus References               


Project #3    Version A   
                      

Students should primarily work on project assignments in the CAE Computer Lab.

There are also eight PCs that run the Mentor Graphics and Xilinx tools in the ECE Department Microcomputer Lab (B-214).

Extended Lab Hours     B-214  (Effective: TBD)

Students should sign up for a station with the Lab Monitor student on duty PRIOR to doing any work. Students should also sign off when they leave the station.

Exams Week Office Hours:     3:00-4:00pm, on Monday, 12/10/07

Review for the Final Exam

In order to get their scores posted on the Web students should create an ID for themselves and turn it in to the course instructor . The ID should be made of six alphanumerical characters that don't refer to the student's name and/or official ID number in any direct way.  Students should not email that info to the course instructor, they should pass it to him on a small piece of paper, instead.

Assessments

Important links

Students are expected to download the most recent versions of WebPack and Modelsim MXE directly from the Xilinx Web site
to their computers. You have to register via email as a guest with Xilinx to receive a license file to run the simulator program ModelSim MXE.

  Xilinx University Support



Comments to: janos.grantner@wmich.edu

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering,
Western Michigan University
4601 Campus Drive
Kalamazoo, MI 49008-5329
Phone: (269) 276-3154
Primary Author: Janos Grantner

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