ECEN 2120

Information

Assignments

Lecture Schedule

Supporting Material

Syllabus

Staff

Supporting Material

Tanenbaum Material

Lecture material from Tanenbaum and Woodhull

• Tanenbaum Chapter 2 material
• Tanenbaum Chapter 3 through 3.2.5 material
• Tanenbaum Chapter 3.8 through 3.8.3 material
• Tanenbaum Chapter 3.9 through 3.9.2 material
• Tanenbaum Chapter 4 material

General Topics

Background information, tables, and lecture notes.

• Information about the Intel IA-32 instruction set
• ASCII Character Codes
• Cache Organization
• Circular Buffers
• IEEE Floating Point document in postscript format
• IEEE Floating Point document in PDF format
• Pair programming
• Reentrancy

Some Handouts from class

Copies of some of the handouts distributed in class.

• Code examples from lecture on mutual exclusion
• Figures from lectures on floating-point coprocessor
• Figures from lectures on caches
• Figures from lectures on memory management
• Code examples from lectures on Intel IA-32
• Code examples from lectures on MIPS
• MIPS instruction set summary

MB5 Hardware

Descriptions of components of the MB5 and links to product data sheets.

• Analog-to-Digital Converters (Click here for the D/A chip's data sheet and here for the A/D chip's data sheet)
• Counter/Timers (Click here for the chip's data sheet)
• Digital-to-Analog Converters
• Keypad
• LCD Display
• Shaft Encoder
• UART (Click here for the chip's data sheet)