ECE 390 - Computer Engineering, II

Summer 2009 | Fall 2009 | Spring 2010 | Summer 2010
Web Page http://courses.ece.uiuc.edu/ece390/
Course Prerequisites Credit in ECE 290 or CS 231
Course Directors Steven Sam Lumetta
Description Design and development of assembly language programs; input-output, interrupts, multitasking, introduction to data structures and graphics; ethical and social issues in computing; laboratory assignments on real-time data acquisition and device control.
Notes Credit is not given for both ECE 390 and CS 232.
Credit 3 hours
Goals To understand the principles and techniques of machine-level programming. To learn to use computers for real-time data acquisition and control of input-output devices. To design and implement complex programs.
Topics
  • Use of lab equipment and software.
  • Assembly language programming: addressing; loops; arithmetic, subroutines, stack, recursion; macros; program design and testing; interfacing to high level language.
  • Review of computer organization, number representations.
  • Input-output and multitasking; interrupt-driven I/O: display control, line graphics; asynchronous serial data communication; priority, scheduling semaphore.
  • Data structures: array, queue, linked list, binary tree, hash table.
  • Ethical issues in computing: ownership of software, privacy of data, professional responsibility, social impacts.
  • Special topics: selections from logical and string instructions, loop invariant, floating point processor, linking/loading.
Computer Usage Assembly-language programming, including use of a macro-assembler and other software tools, and interfacing of assembly-language subprocedures with high-level C language programs; I/O processes and devices; interrupts and priorities, semaphores, real-time operations, multi-tasking, data-acquisition, and computer-based communications and control.
Lab Equipment 37 Dell Optiplex GX240 1GHz Pentium III Systems with 17" flat-panel monitors.
Lab Software NASM
Course Prerequisites ECE 290 or CS 231.
Topical Prerequisities
  • computer organization
  • Number and data recognition
  • Programming in a high-level language
Texts Microsoft MASM 6.11
B.B. Bray, Programming the 80286, 80386 and Pentium-based Personal Computer, Prentice Hall, 1996.
ABET Category Engineering Science: 33%
Engineering Design: 67%