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
microcontrollers 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 Xilinx and Mentor Graphics will be used to
design, simulate and implement digital circuits. ECE
6050 is a core concentration area
course for
students majoring in computer
engineering . Your instructor this Spring is Dr. Janos
Grantner,
a Professor in the Department.
General Information
Students are required to have CAD
software and parts for
Projects.
Starting
with Week 1
students are required to have the software as follows:
- Xilinx
WebPack 13.3 along with the most recent ModelSim PE Student Edition by
Mentor
Graphics.
Students can download the WebPack software from the
Xilinx Web site free of charge. The link to the ModelSim PE
Student Edition is here.
Starting
with Week 3
students are required to have the hardware as follows:
- Nexys 2 Board (Spartan 3E FPGA) that is
included in the Parts Kit below
- Large
Solderless Breadboard
These boards
are being sold
through the IEEE Student Branch. If you don't have a board yet
you should see Ms.
Judy
Seymoure (ECE Main Office, Hours: 8:00am-5:00pm)
to place your order. The
price will be about $30 (cash only).
The final
deadline for placing an order is 4:00pm on Wednesday,
01/18/12. As
always, you are free to buy it through some vendor,
instead.
-
Miscellaneous Electronic Parts for
Projects
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 in cash. The
price for the Parts Kit this Spring is TBD (approx. $185), cash
only.
Students
should see Ms. Judy Seymoure (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 Wednesday, 01/18/12. However,
students are
free to buy these parts through vendors, instead.
Course Syllabus
Design Projects
Project #1 Page1
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Teams
Project #2
Page1
Page2
Page3
Page4 Teams
Project #3 Page1
Page2
Teams
VME Bus References
Project #4 Page1
Page2
Teams
Students should primarily work on project
assignments using their own computers.
There are also eight PCs that run the Xilinx and Mentor
Graphics tools in the ECE Department
Microcomputer Lab (B-214).
Extended
Lab Hours B-214
(Effective: 01/17/12)
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.
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 WMU ID number
in any direct way. Students should not email that info to the
course
instructor, they should pass it to him directly,
instead.
Assessments
Important links
Xilinx
University Support
Comments to: janos.grantner@wmich.edu
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering,
Western Michigan University
CEAS A-246
4601 Campus Drive
Kalamazoo, MI 49008-5329
Phone: (269) 276-3154
Primary Author: Janos Grantner
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