Microprocessor System Design

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Instructors:

A.L. Narasimha Reddy, email:reddy at ece dot tamu dot edu, phone:845-7598

Sunil P Khatri, email:i r t a h k l i n u s (spell backwards, drop spaces) at tamu dot edu, phone:845-8371

Class Hours:

Monday, Wednesday, Friday 1:50pm - 2:40pm, Zachry 223C.

Lab Hours:

Section 501: Monday, 3:00pm - 5:50pm, Zachry 115D.

Section 502: Tuesday, 2:20pm - 5:10pm, Zachry 115D.

Section 503: Wednesday, 3:00pm - 5:50pm, Zachry 115D.

Office hours:

Reddy Wed 4pm - 5pm

Reddy Thu 9am - 10am

Khatri Thu 9am - 10am

Khatri Wed 10am - 11am

Class Room:

223C Zachry

Graduate Assistant:

Rajesh Garg (rajeshgarg at tamu dot edu)

Office hours: Thursday 3pm - 4pm in the lab (Zachry 115D)

Class mailing list is ecen449fall07@listserv.tamu.edu

Resources:

Virtex-II Pro Development System

Xilinx XUP Virtex-II Pro Development System

Digilent Inc. Virtex-II Pro Development System

XUPV2P User Guide

EDK8.2i Reference Manual

ISE8.2i Quick Start Manual

Logic Analyzer and Oscilloscope

Agilent 1673G Logic Analyzer

Agilent 54622D Mixed Signal Oscilloscope

Linux Documentation (for Lab 4)

Dr. John Kelm's write up

O'Reilly's Linux Device Drivers, 2nd Edition

Video Decoder Documentation (for Lab 5)

ADV7183B Video Decoder manual

Digilent Video Decoder Board(VDEC1) Reference Manual

Verilog Documentation

Verilog Quick Reference

Verilog Reference Card

Longer Verilog Reference

Nonblocking and Blocking Assignments in Synthesizable Verilog

Class Notes:

Posted here on this web page. The notes are either developed by the course instructors or derived from other original copyrighted classnotes.

Grading policy:

Homeworks 10%, Lab 50% (5% per week), Test1 (2 hours) 20%, Test2 (2 hours) 20%

EE449 will be graded on a curve.

Course Objective:

The goal of this course is to provide the student with an in-depth knowledge of digital circuit design using an embedded platform as an implementation method. We will cover hardware and software co-design, using a commercial FPGA with an embedded on-chip microprocessor.

At the end of the course the student should be able to view the design of digital systems from a embedded hardware/software perspective and obtain a set of fundamental concepts and design skills that can be applied to a wide variety of digital design problems.

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