Microprocessor Laboratory

The Microprocessor Laboratory has 10 PC workstations, each with two M68HC12B32EVB evaluation boards containing the Motorola 68HC12 microcontroller.  Each station has access to a printer, MiniIDE cross assembler and high-level programming languages.  In this lab students study the theory and applications of microcontrollers and the techniques to interface them with external devices. As a student, you will get hands-on experience that makes the classroom come to life:

• Combinational logic design
• Boolean algebra
• Logic minimization
• Karnaugh maps
• Static and dynamic hazards
• Multiplexers
• Combinational design
• Flip-flops
• Registers
• Counters and counter design
• Finite state machine design
• State tables, diagrams, and state assignment
• Computer-aided microprocessor system development
• Assembly language programming
• Instruction types and addressing modes
• Microcontroller assembly language and architecture
• I/O peripheral programming and interfacing
• Handshaking and interrupts
• Real-time programming
• High-level programming
• Bus protocols
• Embedded system timing analysis
• Pipelining
• Memory hierarchy
• Peripherals
• Parallel processing
• Cost-performance tradeoffs
• Logic systems
• Design using logic gates
• Programmable logic devices
• Timing considerations
• Debugging techniques
• Capabilities, limitations, and design of digital (TTL/CMOS) logic devices
• Design and evaluation of combinational and sequential logic circuits using PLAs, PALs, GALs, PROMs, and FPGAs
• Troubleshooting of your circuits using laboratory instrumentation will be extensive.