University of Jordan

Electrical Engineering Department

 EE 533 Microcomputer Architecture

Fall 1998

Instructor:
    Dr. Gheith Abandah

Email:
    abandah@fet.ju.edu.jo

Home page:
    http://fet.ju.edu.jo/~abandah

Office:
    EE 405

Office hours:
    Sat and Mon 10:00-11:00, Sun 11:00-12:00

No. of credit hrs:
    3

Time and room:
    Sun and Tue 9:30-11:00, EE 001

Textbook:
    B. Brey. The Intel Microprocessors, 4th ed., Prentice-Hall, 1997.

Reference:
    Dettmann and Johnson. DOS Programmer’s Reference, 3rd ed., Que, 1992.
    N. Matloff. IBM Microcomputer Architecture and Assembly Language, Prentice-Hall, 1992

Grading:
    Homework and quizzes 10%
    First exam                     20%
    Second exam                 20%
    Final exam                     50%

Tentative outline:
    Introduction                             1.5 hrs
    Microprocessor architecture     3.0 hrs
    Addressing modes                    3.0 hrs
    Instructions                               4.5 hrs
    Programming                            4.5 hrs
        First exam
    8086/8088 hardware               3.0 hrs
    Memory interface                    3.0 hrs
    I/O interface                            3.0 hrs
    Interrupts                                 3.0 hrs
    Direct-memory access (DMA) 1.5 hrs
        Second exam
    Arithmetic coprocessor             1.5 hrs
    Bus interface                             3.0 hrs
    80186, 80188, and 80286        3.0 hrs
    80386 and 80486                     1.5 hrs
    Pentium and Pentium Pro           3.0 hrs
        Final exam

Special dates:
    Tue 13 Oct 98         No class
    Tue 10 Nov 98        First exam (tentative)
    Tue 15 Dec 98         Second exam (tentative)
    Tue 12 Jan 99           Last class meeting
    Tue 26 Jan 99           Final exam, 9:00-11:00